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Effects of Social Media Use on Youth and Adolescent Mental Health: A Scoping Review of Reviews
Aug. 5, 2025 Nadine Agyapong-Opoku , Felix Agyapong-Opoku , Andrew J Greenshaw Background: The impact of social media on adolescent...


“Working in the content factory”: musicians’ social media use and mental health as seen through the lens of a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural conceptualisation
Aug. 3, 2025 Research shows that musicians are an at-risk occupational group for mental health difficulties and suicidality. Further,...


Algorithmic Addiction by Design: Big Tech's Leverage of Dark Patterns to Maintain Market Dominance and its Challenge for Content Moderation
July 20, 2025 Today's largest technology corporations, especially ones with consumer-facing products such as social media platforms, use...


Social Media Bot Detection Research: Review of Literature
July 12, 2025 This study presents a review of research on social media bot detection. Social media bots are used by political and...


Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms During Early Adolescence
July 12, 2025 Key Points Question Are there within-person associations between social media use (time) and depressive symptoms across...


THE GUARDIAN: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
May 20, 2025 Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey. ...


THE LANCET: School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study
Apr. 16, 2025 Background Poor mental health in adolescents can negatively affect sleep, physical activity and academic performance, and...


JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: Problematic social media use and relationship to mental health characteristics in youth from the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Apr. 16, 2025 Highlights Analyzes the link between social media use and mental health in depressed youth 40.3 % reported problematic...


PNAS NEXUS: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Apr 15, 2025 Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time. Despite the benefits of this technology,...


MIXED FEELINGS: THE PLATFORMISATION OF MOODS AND VIBES
Mar. 19, 2025 By Ludmila Lupinacci, University of Leeds Over the past few years, digital platforms from different sectors have started...


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Mar. 15, 2025 Social media presents a meaningful risk of harm to youth, while also providing benefits The types of use and content...


Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Mar. 15, 2025 Key Points Question Is adolescents’ frequency of checking behaviors on 3 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram,...


CNN _ Ex-Meta executive: ‘People deserve to know what this company is really like’
Mar. 12, 2025 Meta is once again facing allegations from a former employee that a growth-at-all-costs culture has caused offline harm. A...


THE GUARDIAN: It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human
Mar. 9, 2025 A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about it I...


Screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents: prospective findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Mar. 9, 2025 Purpose This study aimed to examine prospective associations between screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents,...
NEW YORK POST: Excessive phone and screen use tied to manic symptoms in pre-teens, study finds
Mar. 9, 2025 A recent study from the University of California, San Francisco, indicates that pre-teens with greater exposure to certain...
Weaponising Social Media, Mental Health and Surveillance Capitalism
Mar. 3, 2025 Individuals, executives lived experiences, and subjective information about every single action (ethical concern) you take...


FINANCIAL TIMES: Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health
Jan. 26, 2025 What do the loneliness epidemic, falling rates of adolescent drinking and dating, and worsening mental health among...


A systematic review: the influence of social media on depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adolescents
ABSTRACT While becoming inextricable to our daily lives, online social media are blamed for increasing mental health problems in younger...


RETURN TO OBSCURANTISM AND NEO-LIBERALISM THROUGH HATRED
Jan. 9, 2025 The changes to Meta’s global policies on hateful content now include allowing users to call transgender people “it”, with...
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