A school-based digital wellbeing program created by the Black Dog Institute has been launched in Australia. Can it change the way teenagers use their phones?
Sick of the daily doomscroll on your morning commutes? Here are some other options if you want a digital detox from your phone.
Bans and restrictions on use and type of mobile phones are gaining traction.
The social media ban will come as a relief for many parents. But what about babies,toddlers and small children,and their relationship with screens?
If your teenager is raging out of control because you haven’t enforced strong enough boundaries around devices,maybe it’s time to stop blaming social media and look in the mirror.
Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has serious concerns about the laws passed on Friday,but,she explains,we can use privacy legislation to make the internet better for young people.
Millions of former tweeters have taken their spotless minds and ridden,on a butterfly’s wings,to an alternative reality:Bluesky,the microblogging site for progressive idealists.
Australia ranks tenth in the world when it comes to how many emails we produce,with 8.1 billion circulated every day. And it’s a big blind spot for us.
I’ve gone from ‘Tweet Ups’ where we’d meet at a cafe to explore this exciting media frontier,to a terrifying digital wasteland straight out of Mad Max.
Financial crime,sexual exploitation,mental abuse,narcissism,intimidation and misinformation is flooding these platforms,and we need to make it stop now.