Too much screen time — particularly related to social media use in kids, teens and young adults — is a major concern in modern society. Smartphones are ubiquitous. Social media is enticing. And the ...

Anyone who has spent ten minutes on platforms dominated by teens and young adults will understand their particular brand of humour, where deadpan absurdity reign supreme.

The day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I was teaching a college class on science, religion and magic. Our class was comparing the Salem witch trials of the 1690s with the McCarthy hearings of ...

Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz discusses the Meta trial, the moral panic around social media, and the risks of regulating ...

“Mental health is declining,” says psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This week his book, “The Anxious Generation,” is No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. His book has been a bestseller for more ...

Haidt argues that smartphones and social media have "rewired childhood" and made kids more anxious and depressed. My son agrees. He brings Haidt's argument to schools. Max Stossel's nonprofit, "Social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The aim of the class was to better understand the concept of moral panics, which are societal epidemics of disproportionate fear ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The aim of the class was to better understand the concept of moral panics, which are ...