Showing posts with label Teenagers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teenagers. Show all posts
Monday, May 15, 2023

Sad-Posting on Tik-Tok

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It's all bad for you, all of social media.  These platforms seem to be getting worse, though. Either that, or more scrutiny is revealing...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

The Teen Mental Health Crisis

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As noted just now on Twitter, " This is what we should be talking about. Want a campaign issue, Republicans? You might as well be stepp...
Monday, April 18, 2022

A Student's Perspective on Book Banning

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From By Sungjoo Yoon, " I’m a High School Junior. Let’s Talk About ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘Mockingbird ": BURBANK, Calif. — In lat...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Teen Girls' Sexy TikTok Videos Take a Mental-Health Toll

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Our society’s completely FUBAR. At WSJ , " Girls are often anxious and overwhelmed by the attention they get after posting suggestive v...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

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As a professor of teenagers, this is something that's worrisome to me, and I try to keep abreast of what's going on. I'm not you...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Teenage Juul Addiction

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The F.D.A. was going to ban over-the counter sales, but stepped back after the outcry, apparently. They're definitely addictive. Thi...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Adam Alter, Irresistible

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked .
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Internet Addiction Resistance

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Following-up, " Adam Alter, Irresistible ." Here's a great piece, with the reference to the book, from Ross Douthat: My ...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Lisa Damour, Untangled

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In bestselling books, at Amazon, Lisa Damour, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood . BONUS : Nanc...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

David L Henderson, My Teenage Zombie

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Some public relations team sent me the blurb on this book. From David L Henderson, M.D., My Teenage Zombie: Resurrecting the Undead Adoles...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Books About Those 'Hot and Sexy Girls'

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If you're up for some hip ("au courant") literary exegeses of the teenage Facebook/Instagram culture. See Nancy Jo Sales, Am...

Hot and Sexy Girls on Facebook

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Zoë Heller had an essay up at the New York Review earlier this summer, " ‘Hot’ Sex & Young Girls ." The reason I'm posti...
Monday, August 29, 2016

60 Percent of Teens Have Created Online Accounts That Their Parents Don't Know About (VIDEO)

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Well, my oldest son had all kinds of social media accounts, and I'm sure a couple I didn't know about. Too late now. He'll be ...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

A Window Into the Mobile Life of Teenagers

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This topic is endlessly fascinating to me, for one reason is that I don't think the points applies exclusively to teenagers. At the Ne...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Teenagers Spend Average of 9 Hours Per Day Using Electronic Media (VIDEO)

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At the Los Angeles Times, " Teens spend an average of 9 hours a day with media, survey finds ": Millennials might be obsessed...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

San Diego Teenager in Coma After Skateboard Crash

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I gather the kid wasn't wearing a safety helmet. At ABC 10 News San Diego, " Teen fights for his life after skateboard crash &quo...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

The Real Teens of Silicon Valley

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Fascinating. At the California Sunday Magazine, " Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

'Unfriended'

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I should see this. I've been studying technology, social media, and youth culture --- to get a better handle on the generation of kids...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Technology and Social Media Trends Among American Teenagers

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An extremely interesting survey from Pew Research, " Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015 ." And see especially th...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Six of Ten Teen Crashes Involve Driver Distraction

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I see people texting and driving constantly. Same for people talking on the phone. It's just the way it is nowadays. Laws prohibiting ...