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Articles and Links on Digital Health
Essential Readings on Digital Health
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Popular Literature
Akhtar, A. (2019, September, 30). Bill Gates and Steve Jobs raised their kids tech free--and it should've been a red flag. Business Insider.
Haidt, J. & Ortega, N. (2022). Why the past ten years of American life has been uniquely stupid: It's not just a phase. The Atlantic.
Langreo, L. (2023, October 16). Cellphone bans can ease students' stress and anxiety, educators say. Education Weekly.
Maruf, R. (2023). Gen Z has a new ‘vintage’ technology to obsess over. KRDO.
Thompson, D. (2022). Why American Teens Are So Sad. The Atlantic.
Research Articles
Common Sense Media. (2023). Constant companion: A week in the life of a young person's smartphone use. Common Sense Media.
Santos, R.M.S., Mendes, C.G., Bressani, G.Y.S., Ventrua, S.dA., Nogueira, Y.J.dA, Miranda, D.M.dM, & Romano-Silva, M.A. (2023). The associations between screen time and mental health in adolescents: A systemic review. BMC Psychology, 11:127, Published online. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01166-7
Twenge, J.M., Haidt, J., Lozano, J. & Cummins, K.M. (2022). Specification curve analysis shows that social media use is linked to poor mental health, especially among girls. Acta Psychologica, 224, p1-11.
Ward, A.F., Duke, K., Gneezy,A., & Bos, M.W. (2017). Brain drain: The mere presence of one's own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. Journal for the Association of Consumer Research, 2(2). Published online. https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/691462
Books
Carr, N. (2020). The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. W.W. Norton & Company.
Nesi, J., Telzer, E.H., & Prinstein, M.J. (Eds.). (2022). Handbook of adolescent digital media use and mental health. Cambridge University Press. (Digital Copy.)
Twenge, J. (2017). iGen: Why today's super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy--and completely unprepared for adulthood. Atria Paperback: Reprint Edition.
Further Reading
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Digital Health Articles
Beland, L.P. (2021, March, 21). Banning mobile phones in schools can improve students' academic performance. This is how we know.The Conversation.
Brundin, J. (2019). Colorado teens say school stress, phones, social pressure are behind growing mental health issues. CPR News.
Common Sense Media. (2019). The Common Sense census: Media use by tweens and teens. Common Sense Media.
Cross, J. (N.D.). What does too much screen time do to children's brains. Health Matters.
GoGuardian Team. (2020). How does screen time impact children' s learning. GoGuardian.com
Haidt, J. & Rose-Stockwell, T. (2019). The dark psychology of social networks: Why it feels like everything is going haywire. The Atlantic.
Kang, S. & Kurtzberg, T.R. (2019). Reach for your cell phone at your own risk: The cognitive costs of media choice for breaks. Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
Klein, A. (2019). Babies as young as twelve months get nearly an hour of screen time a day, study finds. Education Week's: Digital Education.
Klein, A. (2019). Schools say no to cellphones in class, but is it a smart move? Education Weekly.
Klein, A. (2020, January 23). Social Media is "Tearing Us Apart," Middle and High School Students Say. Education Weekly: Digital Education.
LaMotte, S. (2019, November 4). MRIs show screen time linked to lower brain development in preschoolers. CNN Health.
Lin, L.Y., Sidani, J.E., Shensa, A., Radovic, A., Miller, E., Colditz, J.B., Hoffman, B.L., Giles, L.M., & Primack, B.A. (2016). Association between social media use and depression among US young adults.Depression and Anxiety, 00, pp.1-9.
Morin, A. (2017). 10 Reasons teens have so much anxiety today. Psychology Today.
Morin, A. (2020). The harmful effects of too much screen time for kids. VeryWellFamily.com
O'Donnell, J. (2019, March 19). Teens are not socializing in the real world and that is making them super lonely. USA Today.
Orr-Ewing, W. (2022). Breaking the smartphone spell: Parents need more help. The Critic.
Raymond, G. & DiStefano, M. (2022, March, 19). How to support children in a time of crisis. The Gazette.
Robb, M. (2019). Tweens, teens, and phones: What our 2019 research reveals. Common Sense Media.
Twenge, J. (2017). Have smartphones destroyed a generation? The Atlantic.
Sparks, S.D. (2019). Screen time up as reading scores drop. Is there a link? Education Weekly.
Wehrman, T. (2019). Screen time impacts on our children. The Classical Academy Website.
Should There Be a Law Against Cellphones in Schools?
Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation
Students Using Mobile Phones - School Policy
The Smartphone Generation: A Statistical Portrait.
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Digital Health Links
Colorado Middle School Banned Phones 7 Years Ago - CPR News
Common Justifications for Cell Phone Policies
High Schools Get Students to Put Their Phones Away
Panicking About Your Kids’ Phones? New Research Says Don’t
Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, Crazy, and Lazy
Social Media Use Linked To Anxiety, Depression Among Teens, New Study Finds
