Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at the intersection of technology and the humanities, investigating how perspective can enhance, rather than overstimulate, ...

The focus should be on sensible legislation that requires companies to make their products safer and more age-appropriate ...

Australia banned social media for adolescents in 2025. New research looks at the effectiveness of this policy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was the one at the dinner party talking about how I’d logged off. I was the one writing essays on how being offline had deeply ...

While an under-16 social media ban offers simplicity and shifts responsibility to tech companies, it's an incomplete solution.

Longstanding concerns exist about excessive social media use causing mental health problems. The best evidence for this view comes from longitudinal studies showing that earlier social media use leads ...

The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment—and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses rise around the world, a key question has emerged: could the growing ...

Search engines often serve up a distorting blend of information and misinformation. Crispin la valiente/Moment via Getty Images, CC BY-ND Search engines are one of society’s primary gateways to ...

Growing intolerance? Blame social media. Religious and ideological extremism? Blame social media. Lower attention span? Blame social media. I was the one at the dinner party talking about how I’d ...