A major international study suggests there has been a sharp rise in what it calls "problematic" social media use among young people since the pandemic. Researchers came to the conclusion after ...

Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the ...

In his 2010 book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” Nicholas Carr argued that our immersion in digital media is rewiring the way we think, turning us into distracted skimmers ...

Increased social media use in early adolescence is linked to higher depressive symptoms a year later, suggesting a one-way relationship. The study provides longitudinal data on younger adolescents, ...