Social Networks & Children's Brains

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth

Thumbnail image for Mail: Social Media Harms Your Children

Ah, nothing like a [rational, calm, provable headline](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html) to boost the public’s trust in journalists. 
Spotted in Waitrose last night.
Debunked [not long after I got home](http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/).
Noted: shallow, sensationalist reporting in a national newspaper, detailed analysis with reference to peer-reviewed papers on a blog. 
Blogsdaily mailJournalismsciencesocial networks
Adam Tinworth

Adam Tinworth Twitter

Adam is a lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, and a journalist for more than 30. He lectures on audience strategy and engagement at City, University of London.

Comments

You might also like

The Zeitgeist Project: The Curators Objectify Members Public

To conclude The Zeitgeist Project Berlin, the eight curators who talked previously returned to the stage to pitch us on their choice of object that best represented the cultural zeitgeist. This is what they picked: Simon Waterfall The one speaker that frightened the life out of him was the Google

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
3d printing

Jamie Oliver and Kevin Systrom at Le Web: an Instagram moment Members Public

Jamie Oliver and Kevin Systrom have become friends through Instagram. Jamie shares some forthright opinions about social media and food at LeWeb London…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
campaigning

Featured Posts

Facebook is done with our shit, frankly

A woman walks away down a rainy street, leaving behind unwanted flowers in the gutter.

Reddit gets paid for AI training

The Media Inflection Point: a manifesto for audience centricity

Substack really has a Nazi problem now

Substack faces an unprecedented storm of criticism

Better Threads than dead

Avoiding the TikTok trap

A horror image of people being zombified by a phone with TikTok on the screen.

Author

Adam Tinworth

Adam is a lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, and a journalist for more than 30. He lectures on audience strategy and engagement at City, University of London.