Addiction to social media can affect the emotional well-being of adolescents and young adults. But staying offline — even for only a few hours a day — can help.
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Screen addiction is already a household term, but is there any scientific basis for this phenomenon? We take a look at the methods used to measure it and its actual hold on the population.
Phubbing or ‘phone snubbing’ is when prioritise your phone over the people in your company – and it sucks. Here’s how to stop it.
Parents and teenager have the best chance of cracking internet addiction when adults acknowledge they have a problem too.
You’re probably wrong about how much time you spend on your devices, and that has big implications for the link between device use and mental health.
It might be more helpful to talk about excessive use of social media in relation to degrees of harm rather than as “disorder” in terms of addiction.
During lockdowns, we live our lives through our screens. Here, tech experts share their tips on when - and how - to switch off.
It’s almost impossible to be without a smartphone these days – but the way we hold and sit while using them can cause an array of physical health problems.
Excessive screen use has been linked to addictive behaviours, changes in mood, increased stress and difficulty sleeping - here’s how to take a break.
Dopamine fasting has fast become a fad in the Silicon Valley, as a way to reset the brain’s feel-good chemical. Many religions have advocated fasting for some of the same reasons.
Parents who use screens excessively in front of their kids may unwittingly sow the seeds of screen addiction and its consequences.
As the head of a media and communications program, my life’s digital-analogue balance was off. Four weeks at sea with no devices refocussed my views – even on things that had been there all along.
‘Problematic smartphone use’ has similar features to a behavioural addiction – and may potentially lead to poorer mental health.
While there are negative impacts, many of the risks of too much screen time are overblown. A scholar who has studied the topic for years offers some tips for finding the right balance.
As smartphone uptake and connectivity grows in Africa, so does the often unhealthy trend of young people betting on sports using their phones.
The relationship between our smartphones and levels of the stress hormone cortisol isn’t yet clear, but people report feeling more stressed than they were before they had a smartphone.
Buddhist meditation apps are an increasingly popular stress-reliever for people on the go. But do these apps really work? Or are they products of a lucrative industry contributing to a tech addiction?
Looking for a short-term fix from the very thing that is causing you long-term problems is a symptom of addiction.
There’s a lack of scientific evidence supporting claims that digital detoxes actually have any benefit to us.
Many of us complain about the stress of being ‘always on’ – here’s what life could be like, if you actually disconnected.
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Professor of Information Systems, UMass Amherst
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Professor, HBKU Qatar and Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University
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Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Professor, Behavioural Science, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Marketing, Directorate for Advanced Research Computing (ARC), Durham University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Honorary Associate Professor, School of Information Systems and Technology, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Professor of Social Science Philosophy and Method, Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Houston
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Professor, School of Psychoeducation and researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
