In the spring of 2024, we set out to improve student engagement in my digital media literacy course by listening to students and parents regarding their concerns. What emerged was a shared sense of ...

Part of what can make social media feel so miserable is a sense of losing control: not knowing how hours of time have evaporated while watching videos; obsessing over why someone has read a message ...

Last month, Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, announced that it would end its fact-checking program in the U.S., leaving billions of users — many of whom are adolescents — to figure out for ...

Universities spent the late 1990s and early 2000s ensuring students could attach documents to email, fill out spreadsheets and perform other basic computer skills. But the information age has led to a ...

A growing number of teenagers in the United States are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for emotional connection, advice, and companionship. A recent study by Common Sense Media, a group ...