The data on children's media use: An interview with Michael Robb - Rafael Heller, 2018 - 0 views
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they’re much more likely to say that spending time interacting with each other online has a positive impact on their social-emotional lives than a negative one.
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, we found that for all the public attention to the amount of time kids spend with digital media, parents are logging almost as many hours as their kids
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Generally speaking, the press coverage of these issues is not well balanced, and the public mostly hears negative and alarming stories about cell phone addiction and cyberbullying and children holed up alone in their rooms.
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When journalists cover media-related topics, they tend to get carried away, scaring parents about everything from technology addiction to video games’ supposed connection to school shootings
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technology addiction, and the issue ended up being much more complicated than I expected. For example, we found that among researchers and psychologists, there’s no real agreement as to what technology addiction is, how it could be measured, or how prevalent it might be.
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it’s clear that multitasking impairs people’s ability to focus,
