College students often have a complicated relationship with social media, with a large number of learners active on multiple social media platforms but also aware of the negative mental health ...

The facts are well-known at this point (Haidt, 2024): Beginning around 2010, large numbers of American teens bought smartphones and opened social media accounts. Since 2010, rates of anxiety, ...

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn ...

Banning social media for teens sounds like a fix, but it’s not. Here’s why real solutions need to include more than bans to ...

Educators have a pretty bleak outlook on how social media is affecting their students’ social-emotional skills and overall well-being. And that bleak outlook carries over to their adult colleagues as ...

Diana Iracheta, also known as The Latina Engineer, started her nonprofit, The Ingeniera Foundation to increase representation of Latinas in STEM. Social media is arguably one of the most pivotal ...

Few forces have rocked 21st century life as drastically as social media. Digital conversation, networking and media-sharing platforms have allowed friends, acquaintances and strangers to communicate, ...

Many adults—from teachers to the U.S. surgeon general —will tell you that social media has the potential to dangerously erode K-12 students’ mental health. School districts and lawmakers alike have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nickie is a social media expert who covers creator insights. Apr 08, 2024, 11:45am EDT May 08, 2024, 07:34pm EDT Should everyone ...