It’s almost impossible to be without a smartphone these days – but the way we hold and sit while using them can cause an array of physical health problems.
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Excessive screen use has been linked to addictive behaviours, changes in mood, increased stress and difficulty sleeping - here’s how to take a break.
Dopamine fasting has fast become a fad in the Silicon Valley, as a way to reset the brain’s feel-good chemical. Many religions have advocated fasting for some of the same reasons.
Parents who use screens excessively in front of their kids may unwittingly sow the seeds of screen addiction and its consequences.
As the head of a media and communications program, my life’s digital-analogue balance was off. Four weeks at sea with no devices refocussed my views – even on things that had been there all along.
‘Problematic smartphone use’ has similar features to a behavioural addiction – and may potentially lead to poorer mental health.
While there are negative impacts, many of the risks of too much screen time are overblown. A scholar who has studied the topic for years offers some tips for finding the right balance.
As smartphone uptake and connectivity grows in Africa, so does the often unhealthy trend of young people betting on sports using their phones.
The relationship between our smartphones and levels of the stress hormone cortisol isn’t yet clear, but people report feeling more stressed than they were before they had a smartphone.
Buddhist meditation apps are an increasingly popular stress-reliever for people on the go. But do these apps really work? Or are they products of a lucrative industry contributing to a tech addiction?
Looking for a short-term fix from the very thing that is causing you long-term problems is a symptom of addiction.
There’s a lack of scientific evidence supporting claims that digital detoxes actually have any benefit to us.
Many of us complain about the stress of being ‘always on’ – here’s what life could be like, if you actually disconnected.
We’re now so reliant on Google’s services they are now a part of us, raising some deeply troubling questions.
Just because people enjoy a recreational activity doesn’t mean they’re addicted to it, even if they spend lots of time doing it.
Though the World Health Organization has declared “gaming disorder” an addiction, its – and others’ – concerns about technology use and alleged addiction don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny.
Wasting time on the internet at work could be putting your company’s cyber-security at risk.
Dozens of voluntary researchers in nine Indonesian cities mapped digital literacy activities and they found the country needs much more to solve their digital media problems.
Why we love our phones so much might be related to our basic yearnings as human beings, explains a scholar, who is also a pastor.
New research shows that families in Japan and the US struggle in very similar ways with how technology is affecting their lives, their relationships and each other.
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Professor of Information Systems, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Wayne State University
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