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:

Listen to the interview

 

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?