A Pew survey highlights the pressures that social media, academics and gender norms create for teens.

Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond ...

Redesigning social media to suit different needs of users could make their time online more focused, according to new research.

Social media platforms have become increasingly opaque at precisely the moment their influence on society has reached ...

Big Brother watched. Soma numbed. Our smartphones do both. What can Orwell and Huxley teach us about reclaiming digital ...

It also sets social media apart from other consumer products, which typically have a mechanism for recourse. Consider unsafe children’s toys, which can be reported to the Consumer Product ...

This has the potential to change how teens use other social media platforms. Will they ditch the Snap Map and keep scrolling on Instagram? Or are they as committed as they seem to the app that one ...

It’s known that the region of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex, or OFC, is involved in decisions relating to value judgments and impulse control, but it’s not easy to design an experiment ...