As children use more online services, concern has been growing about the increasing amounts of data that they share with tech companies, as evidenced by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s efforts to create a code of...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri
Recent studies show that the number of teenagers who suffer from various mental health issues, such as anxiety, ODD, depression, and so on, keeps increasing. Many connect it to the teen’s extensive use of modern...Read more
The internet is now 30 years old, making it the same age as the key formulation of children’s rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the intervening years, our understanding of...Read more
A report by the Association of Play Industries (API) reveals that children have never moved so little and points to substantial evidence that screens are a key reason. In fact, by the age of eight, the...Read more
More children are going online, more frequently, via more devices and services, at ever-younger ages. The internet and accompanying technological developments offer huge opportunities for children, but they also pose risks to minors’ safety, wellbeing...Read more
|Comment|author: Sonia Livingstone and Emma Goodman
A new study has found a link between teenagers’ frequent use of digital media and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Digital media is easily accessible on mobile phones and consists of everything from texting to...Read more
Here is our weekly round-up of global stories concerning children, their rights and their wellbeing. This week we take a look at a funeral fund for English children, free digital literacy workshops in Canadian cities and a report that claims...Read more
Child experts, educators and advocates plead with Mark Zuckerberg to pull the plug on Messenger kids an app for children under thirteen. They argue, “this new app will undermine children’s healthy development.”
A team of over...Read more
When randomly violent things happen in places that are familiar to children, their fear and anxiety can be very real, even if they do not mention it. After the shocking events in central London this week, Nicky...Read more
