Category: social media effects

Ohio Proposes Law Mandating Parental Consent for Children to Access Online Platforms

Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is proposing a new law that would require certain online services to obtain permission from parents before allowing kids to use their platforms, insisting that such measures are necessary to protect children from harmful content. The “Social Media Parental Notification Act” requires online companies to create a method to determine…


Teens and Tech Don’t Mix

Commentary Over the past several years, we have seen incident after incident that has shown that the “kids are not alright,” particularly teenagers, whose rates of depression, self-harm, substance abuse, and suicide continue to rise at alarming rates. As sociologists, psychologists, and others search for the reason this is happening, signs increasingly point to the…