If you were in any doubt about the growing importance of wellbeing, today’s $1bn valuation of the popular wellbeing app Calm should give you pause for thought. Already the poster-child of Apple’s top app trend of the year, Calm today...
Check out your social media feed, and you’ll probably see people ‘virtue signalling‘ in one of three key areas ‘Reaching‘ – people displaying wealth, education or success‘Related‘ – people...
“I have no doubt that Instagram helped kill my daughter”. These are the words of father Ian Russell in the news this week. Ian Russell is the parent of the 14-year-old UK schoolgirl Molly Rose Russell, who recently took her own life...
A new study published today in the influential BMJ (British Medical Journal) has systematically reviewed the evidence to date on the effects of screentime on health and wellbeing in adolescents and children. The study, authored by UCL researchers Dr...
Should machines augment human autonomy, rather than eliminate it? The British Army has begun testing a new generation of emerging “Autonomous Warriors” (AKA killer robots) on the fields of Salisbury Plain in the south of England. It is...
A new study published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology has found that limiting social media use to approximately 30 minutes per day may lead to a significant improvement in wellbeing. The research, based on a scientific experiment...
You may already have heard Denzel Washington ripping into tech giants as a source of information overload, fake news and unhealthy device dependency. His pithy quotes have been integrated into a couple of video clips from Be Inspired on...
Two and half years ago, digital agency Syzygy teamed up the London College of Fashion to produce a set of ‘Design for Happiness’ brainstorming cards (free download), using insights from positive psychology and positive...
The University of Oxford has just launched a new research programme into digital wellbeing. The research will be run by the Digital Ethics Lab (with its natty tagline ‘every bit as good’) at the University’s Oxford...
Coca-cola just deleted its entire Instagram history… and then refreshed the account with a set of positive messages around the power of kindness and compassion on World Kindness Day. With a hashtag of course #RefreshTheFeed. Coke deleting its...
The University of York in the UK is running a free online course on digital wellbeing over at Future Learn (nine hours total learning time). It’s designed for anyone interested in understanding health and wellbeing in the digital age...
Google is rolling out Digital Wellbeing features to more Android devices, and has plans to bring these features to smart displays, Google Home and Google Assistant. Previously only available as an optional beta ‘preview’ download to owners of...