Using this many devices at once doesn’t mean a person is addicted to technology. Pressmaster/Shutterstock.com I am a psychologist who has worked with teens and ...

A typical teen’s day includes up to nine hours of texting, gaming, watching videos, and posting on multiple social networks — even while doing homework. It’s enough to make you wonder: Is my kid ...

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Earlier this year, researchers at UNC’s Winston Center for Technology and Developing Minds established a new initiative to investigate how technology is “rewiring” the brains of developing youth ...

Steve Durbin is Chief Executive of Information Security Forum. He is a frequent speaker on the Board’s role in cybersecurity and technology. Massachusetts lawmakers are finally confronting a reality ...

Social media and technology are everywhere in today’s day and age, but more than ever, young people are getting access to these earlier and earlier in life. Excessive social media use in children can ...

(CNN) — Teens who spend lots of time on social media have complained of feeling like they can’t pay attention to more important things like homework or time with loved ones. A new study has possibly ...

On Tuesday, 33 states filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, “has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage, and ...

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular when a person cannot stop these behaviors despite experiencing negative ...

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One of the things that Wade L. Robinson discusses in his book, Engineering Ethics, is the importance of avoiding “error-provocative” designs, in which the technological artifact not only allows for ...

I write quite a lot about the interaction of technology and addiction. Typically, I’m focused on the ways in which technology serves as a driver for addiction. For instance, digital technologies are ...