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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...

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, ...

We hear a lot about how social media is terrible for teenagers’ mental health. A growing number of laws and lawsuits point the finger at social media companies as playing a major role in driving the ...

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 ...

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 protect youth mental health.

Ethan Zuckerman receives funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the (US) National Science Foundation. Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci receives funding from the ...