Earlier today I recorded for the Beyond Today podcast on social media and mental health, and the moral panics that surround technology, when there are many other underlying factors which need far more attention:
Some related links:
- Self-harm and social media: a knee-jerk ban on content could actually harm young people
- Six triggers of stress and depression in children and how you can help
- Reading the Riots on Twitter (Farida Vis)
- Suicide rates rise
- Do we really have suicidal generation?

Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @ Manchester Metropolitan University. Interested in digital literacy and digital culture in the third sector (especially faith). Author of ‘Raising Children in a Digital Age’, regularly checks hashtag #DigitalParenting.
See https://www.tes.com/news/social-media-not-sole-cause-youth-suicide