Appstinence founder Gabriela Nguyen deleted her social media accounts and downgraded to a dumbphone after finding the tech ...

Opinion: Maryland needs a state-wide ban on smartphones in classrooms. Children’s lives and learning depend on it.

Your Attention Please, a documentary premiering this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas, explores how we live in the attention ...

Battles are emerging between tech companies and governments that are trying to limit the harm to children and adolescents ...

Gabriela Nguyen, 24, grew up in Silicon Valley during the social media boom of the 2010s. She got her first smartphone at age 12, but switched to a flip phone at 23. She also doesn't use social media ...

A recent study in Computers in Human Behavior provides evidence that a single smartphone pop-up derails mental focus for seven seconds. Researchers found that fragmented digital habits cause more ...

The Chainsmokers’ latest song, "Sick Boy," sums it up in a line, How many likes is my life worth? Constant interruption, desire to be entertained twenty-four seven, and continued connectedness are ...

Tech CEOs Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and others focus on creative tech use for kids rather than screen time limits. Short-form video is a worry.

Banning smartphone and social media access alone fails to equip children for healthy use of technology, argues a group of international experts in The BMJ today. They say the focus should shift to a ...

New Delhi: A total of 82.2 per cent of teenagers aged between 14 to 16 know how to use smartphones, 76 per cent use it for ...

Despite fears that constant phone scrolling harms mental health, new research shows that smartphones have almost no measurable effect on mood, challenging one of today’s most persistent digital-age ...