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Missed Connections: Social Media Has Its Benefits

By Anne Maheux — 2021

The amount of time teenagers spend on social media isn’t the only thing that matters. So does how they use it.

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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids—and How to Break the Trance

From addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children―and not for the better.

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Nicholas Kardaras
2025
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Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism, or other disorders but don’t respond well to treatment.

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Victoria L. Dunckley
2015
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Screen-Smart Parenting: How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child’s Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices

As a practicing child psychiatrist and mother of three, Jodi Gold has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious downsides of technology. Dr.

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Jodi Gold
2014
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Social Media Dangers Documentary — Childhood 2.0

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children.

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2020
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Are Your Kids Addicted to Social Media?

Are your kids addicted to Social Media? - A video Q&A with pediatrician and host Dr. Angela Mattke and Dr. Nusheen Ameenuddin, pediatrician and Chair of the Council on Communications and Media at American Academy Pediatrics about the effects of screens and social media on children and teens.

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2020
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The Role of Social Media in our Lives | Jake Swayze | TEDxSouthPasadenaHigh

People, teenagers especially, need to evaluate the role of technology and social media in their lives. In his talk, Jake describes his experiences with social media as a teen and explores the effect it has had on his generation. Jake is a student at South Pasadena High School.

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2015
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Growing Up Digital: Life in A World of Networks and Screens

For nearly all of human history, communication and social interaction involved face-to-face contact. Now, screen-based digital devices mediate a substantial array of interactions.

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2019
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Addiction Proof Your Child: A Realistic Approach to Preventing Drug, Alcohol, and Other Dependencies

In a world where binge drinking, recreational and prescription drug abuse, chronic overeating and anorexia, and Internet gambling and pornography are all too common among teens, it’s time to rethink the conventional wisdom about addiction. We clearly need something more than “just say no.

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Stanton Peele
2007
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#Obsession: Freeing Yourself from Social Media Disorder

There is a real epidemic of social media addiction in this country and abroad—wherever anyone has access to the Internet. When a British youth tries to kill himself because he cannot take the perfect “selfie,” we know humankind has crossed a line into dangerous and toxic territory.

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Seyedeh Tina Sadri, Randall Frakes
2016
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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves. There’s no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate.

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Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
2020
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