But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...

Learn how recommendation algorithms, streaming recommendations, and social media algorithms use content recommendation ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

Social media algorithms are designed to be addictive, especially for children, and can expose them to harmful content. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) aims to hold social media companies accountable ...

Smart Gen Society not only educates parents and kids about online safety, but also takes advocacy to the state’s capital.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—The New York Attorney General has released proposed rules on the SAFE for Kids Act— legislation aimed at restricting addictive social media feeds for users under the age of 18.

On Friday afternoons, shortly before the school bus arrives, my mom comes to my house. She ambles into my kitchen to make a cup of tea, and after a few minutes my preteen son runs through the back ...

Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.

For children and adolescents, these motivations are even stronger. Social media becomes a space for belonging, identity ...

From December 10, young teenagers in Australia will be banned, under new legislation, from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok - one of the toughest online crackdowns in the ...

Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic world.

An advocacy group pushing for technology regulation, called the Center for Countering Digital Hate, is sounding the alarm about its new study. KIRO Newsradio reporter Luke Duecy explained earlier how ...