Smartphones, social media and secret chat apps helped fuel an unimaginable internet flood of sexually explicit images of children, with more than 60 million such photos, videos and files reported ...

For the last few years, psychologists and social media experts have been sounding the alarm on the harmful effects of excessive screen time. In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and ...

Video content—whether viewed on cellphones, laptops, or interactive whiteboards—has become so ubiquitous both inside and outside classrooms that educators may not stop to think about the effects on ...

Once upon a time, children fought for control of the remote to the sole family television. Now the choice of screen-based content available to kids seems endless. There are computers, tablets, phones ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting ...

Jacquelyn Harverson is affiliated with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Louise Paatsch receives funding from Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence ...