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 celebrating marriage, children or monogamy‘Responsibility‘ –...
“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. When Molly’s...
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...
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 the...
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 Internet Institute, and will focus...
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 own...
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. I believe it’s...
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...
The International Gaming Research Unit, at Nottingham Trent University has published a useful summary of research into the risks of excessive or problematic use of social media during adolescence (download here). In a nutshell, anxiety, depression...
A new study reported in the Harvard Business Review by Future Workplace suggests that the #1 office perk that employees want from their employers is natural light. Based on a survey of 1614 North American workers, access to natural light and views...
Apple has released the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system, and perhaps the most significant change in iOS12 is a new ‘Screentime’ digital wellbeing feature designed to help users monitor and manage their screentime. When enabled...