Research

• 📥 Anthropomorphism in AI: hype and fallacy By focusing on these two dimensions of anthropomorphism in AI, the essay highlights negative ethical consequences of thephenomenon in this field.
• 📥 The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
• 📌 AI Thinking: a framework for rethinking artificial intelligence in practice New research published in Royal Society Open Science presents a new framework to help understand the decisions and considerations that go into AI use
• 📥 Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence AI tool Developers/users need a better understanding of when such approaches need improvement, and of challenges posed by poor data quality/stewardship

• 📥 AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored

• 📌 Artificial intelligence in positive mental health: a narrative review Review of the entire spectrum of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mental health and its positive role in mental health

• 📌 School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood University of York psychologists tested the impact of smartphones on children''s behaviour for a Channel 4 documentary
• 📥 The Centre for Social Justice: Lost Boys The last 100 years saw leaps forward in outcomes and rights for women. Boys are now being left behind
• 📥 Ofcom: Research into risk factors that may lead children to harm online Research by "Revealing Reality", an independent social research agency Offense? 🤫 Distress? 😧
• 📌 Youth depression driven by internet addiction, say researchers Includes advice on preventing depression
• 📥 Refuge and Risk Life Online for Vulnerable Young People (Published by "Internet Matters")
• 📥 NSPCC - Online risks to children: evidence review Reviewing the evidence base on online harms to children
• 📌 4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges why do young people take challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?
• 📌 Ofcom Children’s Media Lives: Life in Lockdown Aug 2020 Analysis of findings from a Covid-19-specific wave of the longitudinal Children’s Media Lives study
• 📌 OfCom Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2020/21 looking at media use, attitudes & understanding among children/young people age 5-15, plus media access & use by children aged 3-4

• ? DFC Research Database Free to use: goal of database is supporting children's digital rights by sharing knowledge and research
• 📌 Oxford Internet Institute Research OII Research Projects

• 📌 Investigation: content by bot-like a/cs on X seen 150M times ahead of 2024 UK elections Describes five flags used to determine whether an account is likely a bot
• 📌 Social media ‘bots’ used to boost political messages during Brexit referendum Unique research discovers automated accounts were key in spreading misinformation in 2016.
• 🌍 Cyabra U.S. Consultancy reporting Online Misinformation and Disinformation

• 📌 The echo chamber effect on social media Key differences between main social media platforms and how they likely influence information spreading and echo chamber formation
• 📌 What Gen Z thinks about its social media and smartphone usage The Harris Poll in conjunction with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his team
• 📌 How social media turns online arguments between teens into real-world violence The Study finds four ways the young try to prevent violence through social media: avoidance, deescalation, reaching out for help and bystander intervention.
• 📌 What Makes TikTok so Addictive? An Analysis of the Mechanisms Underlying the World’s Latest Social Media Craze

• 📌 Prevalence of online bullying There are numerous studies into levels of online bullying
• 📌 Share of teenage social media users who think they are addicted to social media UK Users by gender in 2023 who considered they were addicted to social media
• 📌 Around a quarter of 5-7 year-olds now own a smartphone in the UK This Ofcom survey also shows that 5-7 year-olds' online active increased year-on-year