Big tech companies argue their platforms are communication tools not traps, and that addiction is a mischaracterisation of high engagement.

In an era when you can bet on almost any sporting event on your phone, it is no surprise that gambling addiction is on the rise. Young men are particularly likely to get in too deep. WBUR's Patrick ...

Students across the area have received varying levels of discipline for leaving school early to protest the federal ...

Study tracks pre-teens for one year: addiction-like screen behaviors at age 11-12 associated with depression, suicide risk, sleep problems.

A widely-used age verification vendor for sports betting sites watched as a horde of kids attempted to create new betting ...

Another complication is how social-media use is evaluated: many studies look only at total amount of time spent on the ...

My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. "We've been born into a world with social media so it's a bit unfair if you just take it away from people who are younger," said ...

One is often told, “Idle hands are the work of the devil,” but boredom creates the mental gap that creativity and curiosity ...

Jurors got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and ...

EDITORIAL The net if not handled cautiously, could be as dangerous as the spider’s web is for insects “Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.” So had observed the American ...

A Queensland man faces 596 charges of child abuse for grooming boys online. His crimes span multiple countries, with 23,000 ...

It's easy to scapegoat excessive screentime for students' poor performance, but deeper problems remain, Chris Powell writes.