A couple weeks back I did a LIVE interview with Local 4 Detroit News about a paper myself and Dr. Keith Hampton published in Information, Communication & Society in June (2025) about adolescent screen time, academic achievement, and digital skills (find the full-text here or, for a brief overview, see my blog post here).

Public conversations about “screen time” in adolescence often start and end with worry that time online must be stealing attention from school. Our newly published paper asks a different question: What if some of that unstructured time on social media, video games, and general web browsing builds skills that help students do better in school?