This piece from Jennie Weiner talks about the challenges & concerns parents have a we think we need to recreate school at home. My husband and I both work full time. Like so many others, we’re attempting to keep our...
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As members of the Screentime Research Group, we spend a lot of time thinking, talking, and writing about the challenges of living and learning in the age of screens. This post in Slate by jane c. hu indicates that the...
TikTok was introduced in the United States only a year and a half ago. Norms, particularly around credit and attribution, are still being established. One of the more popular pieces of content on the network involves dancers who...
A district in New York has adopted the technology in the name of safety. Opponents cite privacy and bias concerns. Read more about the challenges & concerns in an op-ed from Jim Schultz, a parent cited in the...
Amy Orben and Andrew Przybylski with research that analyses data from 11,884 adolescents included in the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the association between digital engagement and adolescent...
Elizabeth Dowdell and Brett Frischmann on the rules and boundaries parents need to have as we think about screens and sleep habits. Helping children to get a better night’s sleep is a nearly universal parenting goal that now...
Tom Vanderbilt with a piece in Nautilus on the reasons why we love the more than 135 million how-to videos available online. Vanderbilt suggests that this is because humans learn by seeing others engage in tasks, and map...
Tanya Basu in MIT Technology Review sharing the work of the Human Screenome Project in the Screenomics Lab at Stanford University. Byron Reeves, Thomas Robinson, & Nilam Ram from the Lab shared news of the...
As part of the Screentime Research Group, I’ve been thinking a lot about our digital literacy practices, and how youth will be impacted by these tools in their futures. Kate Eichhorn, an Associate Professor of Culture...
Candace L. Odgers and Michaeline R. Jensen published a review of the research from the past decade that combs through about 40 studies that have examined the link between social media use and both...