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‘It is hijacking my brain’ – a team of experts found ways to help young people addicted to social media to cut the craving

Feb. 15, 2024

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies.

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Annie Margaret interviewed about the role of social media in teen self esteem

Aug. 5, 2022

Watch Teaching Assistant Professor Annie Margaret talk about social media's role in teen self esteem in this webinar by Forward Together, an organization that develops resources for parent-to-youth and youth-to-youth communication and relationship building.

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ATLAS to host Fulbright scholar studying social media abstinence

June 29, 2022

Fulbright Ireland–USA has announced that CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute will host Fulbright Scholar Eoin Whelan, professor of business analytics and society at the National University of Ireland, Galway, during summer 2023.