A new collaborative international report from the medical journal The Lancet summarises a year’s data from around the world on the psychological and neurological effects of the pandemic, with some interesting implications for digital wellbeing...
What exactly is “digital wellbeing?” Normally, it’s a state of personal wellbeing experienced through the healthy use of digital technology But ask 29 experts and you get 29 different answers. So here they are, 29 different ways to...
Here’s a quick summary of last week’s webinar Understanding children’s well-being in a digital world organised by CO:RE, Media@LSE and the eNurture network. The webinar was hosted by Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology at...
Social commerce finally comes to Facebook, as the social media giant launches a new e-commerce feature called Shops for its suite of social media apps. The link to digital wellbeing might appear tenuous, but did you know that shopping can improve...
Question: Are we underestimating digital media harm? Answer: It depends on how you cut the data. The debate continues to rage in a new slingshot statistical fight between researchers. In the blue corner, we have University of Oxford researchers Amy...
I’ve popped up a simple site of self-care tips with my good friends Florian Schmitt and Rachel Hunt to help you stay sane during the aftermath of the pandemic. The site is called ‘dontpanic.world‘ and it contains 6 quick and easy...
How do you keep healthy digital habits during the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak? As more people engage in ‘social distancing‘ and ‘self-isolation‘, many of us are becoming more dependant on our digital technology to...
A few months after launching an initial set of six experimental digital wellbeing apps (Unlock Clock, Post Box, We Flip, Desert Island, Morph, and Paper Phone Google has expanded its suite of apps designed to help users manage their relationship...
We should kill “screentime” as an unhelpful and meaningless term. That’s is the central recommendation of a new review of research into the relationship between digital technology and wellbeing by Dr. Amy Orben from the Medical...
Google’s “focus mode” for Android phones is coming out of beta testing and will be rolled out to devices running Android 9 and 10. Designed to reduce digital distraction, this new focus mode is possibly the most useful and evidence...
Here’s the new Digital Addiction Scale for Children (“DASC”) which has just been published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. The DASC is a simple test made up of 25 questions based on the emerging...
Ex-googler, Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Tech has a new article out in the New York Times proposing three solutions to help curb the harms of Big Tech Establish a new tax (a “downgrading tax”) on tech giants designed to a)...