Tag: social media

Study suggests double-edged effect of Instagram on teens

From the International Communication Association press release: Your food, your vacation, your carefully curated life — all posted for your friends in a filtered image. Some may scoff at adolescents’… Read more »

Media multitasking linked to distractibility among youth

From the University of Helsinki press release: The aim of Mona Moisala’s doctoral dissertation was to study patterns of activity in cortical networks related to attention and working memory, as… Read more »

Negative experiences on Facebook linked to increased depression risk in young adults

From the Brown University media release: In the first study of its kind, public health researchers show that young adults who reported having negative experiences on Facebook — including bullying, meanness,… Read more »

Interventional policies and practices needed to prevent bullying and its harm

From the National Academy of Sciences media release: Bullying is a serious public health problem, with significant short- and long-term psychological consequences for both the targets and perpetrators of such behavior,… Read more »

FOMO: It’s your life you’re missing out on

From the Texas A&M University media release: “You missed out.” Is there another sentence that could strike such anxiety in the hearts of young people? Other than “We need to talk,”… Read more »