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Amid all the talk of teens and ‘digital wellbeing’…

August 8, 2022 By Anne 1 Comment

...there is actually little known about teens’ wellbeing itself, without the digital part – even though “we find a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence,” write the authors of a study just published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. “This decrease is steeper than at any other point across adulthood.” The study fills us in a bit. It offers some explanations as … [Read more...] about Amid all the talk of teens and ‘digital wellbeing’…

Filed Under: adolescent development, Research, teens, Youth Tagged With: adolescence, Amy Orben, Cambridge University, Delia Fuhrmann, digital wellbeing, media effects, Richard E Lucas, Rogier A Kievit

Screens kids use, Part 2: Research turning a corner

April 7, 2020 By Anne 3 Comments

This subject – at this writing, about 3 weeks after I posted Part 1 – almost seems like that of a previous era, with all we’ve experienced since then (see this in The Atlantic from history professor Rebecca Spang). But we, societies around the world, will still be wrestling with this question of humans and screens in the pandemic’s aftermath, so I'm keeping going. Here’s Part 2, taking stock of … [Read more...] about Screens kids use, Part 2: Research turning a corner

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Byron Reeves, Candice Odgers, Eric Rasmussen, Jeffrey Young, Jenny Radesky, Lisa Guernsey, Michaeline Jensen, Mimi Ito, Nilam Ram, Rebecca Spang, Sonia Livingstone, Stephen Heppell, Thomas Robinson

Digital wellness: What is, & isn’t, parody

August 30, 2019 By Anne 1 Comment

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“Social media seriously harms your mental health” goes the message on the back of smartphones ironically held in the perfectly manicured hands of super models and other social media influencers, two of whom get “hundreds of thousands of likes on nearly every photo they post to Instagram,” the Verge reports. The message is on the back of a clear plastic phone case that has gone viral but not … [Read more...] about Digital wellness: What is, & isn’t, parody

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Social Media Tagged With: Amanda Third, Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Candice Odgers, Carrie James, Instagram, Michael Rich, Moira Burke, parody, Robert Kraut, Urban Sophistication

Wellbeing, digital or analog: A paper, a podcast

January 17, 2019 By Anne 3 Comments

Confused about all that you’re hearing about the impacts of digital media and tech on young people? A just-published paper should clear that confusion up, reports Scientific American. Drawing from data on more than 350,000 teens, the paper, “show[s] persuasively that…technology use has a nearly negligible effect on adolescent psychological well-being.” Its authors, Oxford University researchers … [Read more...] about Wellbeing, digital or analog: A paper, a podcast

Filed Under: Research, Youth Tagged With: Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Cal Newport, Candice Odgers, David Finkelhor, Ezra Klain, Nature, Oxford University

A book for wise (digital) parenting

April 30, 2018 By Anne 1 Comment

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The Art of Screen Time, by NPR's Anya Kamenetz, could not be more timely. What with hearings and headlines about digital privacy, so much talk about "tech addiction," and bad advice about "screen time," parents deserve this haven from the storm. And it's a haven not just because Kamenetz is a great reporter with sources representing multiple perspectives and disciplines. Also because she knows … [Read more...] about A book for wise (digital) parenting

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Amy Orben, Anya Kamenetz, Candice George, David Finkelhor, Devorah Heitner, Leen d’Haenens, Madeleine George, Mimi Ito, Patti Valkenburg, Sofie Vandoninck, Sonia Livingstone, Verónica Donoso

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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