Whereas the previous chapter looked specifically at mobile phones and their perceived impact, this chapter focuses on the perceived changes brought about by increasing internet and social media use.

Computer use is a widespread leisure activity for adolescents. Leisure contexts, such as Internet cafés, constitute specific social environments for computer use and may hold significant educational ...

Before and after classes at Panguitch High School, a low-slung brick building nestled in the high desert of southern Utah, students find their way to Shawn Caine’s classroom. They settle in at the ...

As educators are wrestling with the implications of generative AI in the classroom, on December 8th, 2022, researchers from OpenAI, Khan Academy, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at ...

During this year’s State of the Union address, President Obama championed the goal of increasing bandwidth in schools across the country. The following day, a group of CEOs wrote an open letter ...

Around dinner time one night in May, a student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Googled “Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.” But instead of a list of links to information about the landmark US Supreme Court case ...

People in the United States and around the world are turning to the internet to do their work and stay connected with others as the COVID-19 outbreak forces people to stay home and away from the ...

Health care experts deal with new health risks every day, in which the medical community is just beginning to catch up to. Researcher's want to find out if excessive use of Internet applications ...