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In an age where social media promises to connect us, a Baylor University study reveals a sobering paradox—the more time we spend interacting online, the lonelier we may feel.

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It’s the first legislative effort this Congress to protect children and teens online—a bipartisan goal of lawmakers for the ...

The average teen spends five hours on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. What's different about me is how I think about all that content.

For National News Literacy Week, Lake Effect's Joy Powers sat down with Journalism and Media Studies professor Patrick ...

A sensitive period for social learning coincides with the age at which many children use social media and encounter influencers for the first time. The effects are worrisome.

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Social media is bad for teens, right? That's a lot of what we hear. But a recent study examined voices missing from the ...

The study also found a two-way relationship between loneliness and social media use. "It appears that a continuous feedback loop exists between the two,” Roberts, Ph.D. “Lonely people turn to social ...