A focus on how we engage with social media—not just how long we spend on it—is key to analyzing the impact on mental health, a new study warns. Examining how people think about, respond to and use ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at views of how social media has impacted democracy in 37 countries, as well as social media use by platform in each place. Pew Research Center does research to ...

It's hard to avoid the temptation to claim Social Security early. If you were born in 1960 or later, your full retirement age is 67. And that's when you can collect your monthly checks without a ...

Some people hide their ignorance well. Others really don't. Instead, they display it - loud and proud - for all the world to see. It just takes a quick scroll through social media to prove that ...

Newswise — Adolescent and young adult medicine experts share tips for minimizing digital stress, regulating social media use, and keeping teens' confidence high. Social media plays a significant role ...

How much mindless doomscrolling through social media is too much? Science might have an answer — or at least the beginnings of one. A newly published study in the journal npj Mental Health Research ...

Governments around the world have passed or proposed a range of bans or restrictions on young teens using addictive social media platforms. By Ephrat Livni Meta’s landmark settlement of up to $17.1 ...

The media industry is operating with tools, contracts and habits built for a different era. For change to be truly agile, media companies and their vendors need to take an evolutionary approach.

Everyone has seen them out at restaurants: the "iPad babies" and zoned-out families. Parents letting their children, some quite young, stare at phones or tablets throughout the meal, sometimes while ...

Within minutes of waking up, I can’t help but reach for it. The iPhone on my nightstand has a gravitational pull. I swipe through my Instagram feed before my eyes have even adjusted to daylight. Of ...

Want to read later? Download your PDF copy by clicking here. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, Italian researchers estimated the effects of early social media exposure ...