Psychologists are calling on parents, educators, policymakers, and content creators to make video-viewing healthier for teens ...

Social media isn’t just connecting teens, it’s consuming them, and we need a better policy approach to curb harm.

Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you,” suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just “for you” but also “about ...

Protecting a teen’s mental and emotional well-being in the digital age also means protecting their digital environment. Cybersecurity and healthy online habits go hand in hand: when teens feel safe ...

New York is planning to prohibit social media companies from using algorithms to control content to youth without parental consent under a tentative agreement reached by state lawmakers, the Wall ...

If you're seeing the same types of stories repeatedly on your social media feeds, you're not alone, and it's due to something called an "algorithm.""It's a series of steps that a computer follows in ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

As society attempts to solve more and more problems computationally, the need for efficient algorithms to solve these problems continues to grow. Just as importantly, to be able to apply or adapt ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nora McDonald, George Mason University (THE CONVERSATION) Social media apps regularly ...