The true impact of restricting young people’s access to social media likely won’t be known for years.
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If you notice a friend exhibiting any concerning signs – especially rapid worsening over hours – take them seriously.
Most online platforms appear free to use, but they are largely funded through advertising.
Social media platforms are marketing machines designed to extract value from experience itself.
While the legal route from independent to state provision technically still exists, it has largely fallen out of use, with no conversions taking place since 2017.
Aggressive behaviour may be modelled and reinforced in homes, schools, and communities.
Many school policies encourage disciplinary behaviour management strategies and a focus on academic outcomes.
The Representation of the People Bill 2026 makes provision for 16-and 17-year olds to be able to vote.
Adults encourage children to assume a progressively more active role in storytelling.
Learning English in Sweden is so much more than what goes on in school.
With a major inquiry into online harms nearing its conclusion, NZ faces a pivotal decision about how boldly it wants to respond.
Tik Tok, Instagram, Youtube… Social Media is driving offline disorders among teenagers, suggests a large-scale report by French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses).
Students are choosing to spend hundreds of hours studying a subject, not just a path to university.
Young people with life-shortening conditions want full lives, including relationships, but support around sex and intimacy is still lacking.
Brainrot creates a shared cultural code.
We urgently need to teach young people ‘conversational literacy’.
The new year will bring new controls over what you see online – such as blurring pornographic or violent search results if you’re not logged in.
The environments in which young people can explore, fail safely, and develop social mastery has been radically narrowed.
Will higher minimum wages put employers off young workers?
One-third of students in an OECD survey said school has not taught them anything useful for a job.
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice, University of Hull
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Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow – Quantitative Data/Statistics, Monash University