What the media gets wrong about teens, social media, and phones

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What the media gets wrong about teens, social media, and phones
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As a parent, I'm consumed with worry about the potential harms of the so-called phone-based childhood. Sometimes I wish I could put my own kids in a Faraday cage.Still, as a tech journalist who has covered this topic, I know it's more complicated than just phone + social media =bad.So I was intrigued when I came across a study by researchers at Notre Dame that found that media narratives on the issue tended to be one-sided.

But I do appreciate getting to actually hear from teens, as my colleague Kelly Burch did when she interviewed high schoolers about the TikTok ban.Oguine said their research suggested that online safety was being viewed from a 'one size fits all' kind of bucket. It also largely didn't include perspectives out of the mainstream, like from gay or minority youth.

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