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Looking at your phone while in the presence of others – called phubbing – has become commonplace. But who gets phubbed most? How frequently? And in what situations?
While many parents believe equipping their young child with a cellphone is a matter of safety, research shows the practice comes with certain risks.
After two decades of work, the technical challenges of a bendable screen may have been overcome.
Cybercriminals may steal data from laptops and mobile phones when they are plugged in via USB ports.
The risk smartphones pose to our memory is overblown, but they do get in the way of us making more detailed and authentic memories.
It’s not easy to get all those metals out of the ground.
Since 15 June 2017, roaming charges have been banned in the European Union. Are users necessarily beneficiaries of this measure?
Electric cars and smartphones have created growing demand – and volatile prices – for once obscure metals.
Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.
As younger generations spend more time interacting with people online and less time in real life, they are more likely to experience catfishing – both as victims and instigators.
New tools to help people use their smartphones in less detrimental ways are a good start, but could be even better at protecting users’ well-being.
Thanks to a burgeoning procrastination economy, developers are creating content that can be consumed in short spurts. What does it mean for productivity?
Though the World Health Organization has declared “gaming disorder” an addiction, its – and others’ – concerns about technology use and alleged addiction don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny.
Motor vehicle crashes are a public health crisis in the US. Distracted driving laws can save lives – but only some states have them.
As cities get smarter, we need to examine carefully who gets our data and what it is used for.
People in Appalachia are skeptical and cautious around technology – and how they think can be useful and instructive for living in a tech-centric world.
New research shows the impact of technology, especially smartphones, on carbon emissions. Encouraging consumers to get new phones every couple of years leads to extraordinary and unnecessary waste.
When thinking about regulating them, it’s useful to know Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have some similarities. But generally they’re not competing with each other – or anyone else.
Sound alerts on digital devices are often annoying, so we’ve tended to opt for silence. In future, that could hold us back.
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor - Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Screen Media, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Behavioural Science, University of Bath
