By Courtney Mares Pope Leo XIV has a message for American teens gathered this summer at the Steubenville Youth Conferences: True joy is not found "spending hours in front of a screen or endlessly scrolling on social media." In a video message released on 20 June for the 50th anniversary of the conferences hosted by Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, Pope Leo told young people h...

Researchers at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) are concerned that social media is a contributing factor to the declining rates of youth literacy in Australia. Research shows that since the pandemic there has been a massive increase in youth social media usage, while at the same time young people are spending less free time on constructive hobbies such as reading. Literacy among ...

Under the shadow of COVID-19, social distancing measures have resulted in the cancellation of group recreational activities at all levels, many businesses have been forced to close and others have had to require their employees to work from home: the world has found itself stuck at home and our use of digital technology has spiked massively as a result, with both positive and negative consequences.