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Blanket ban on teen smartphone use ‘potentially detrimental’, says academic

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A leading academic tasked by the UK government with reviewing the effects of smartphones on teenagers has suggested blanket bans are “unrealistic and potentially detrimental”. Amy Orben, from the University of Cambridge, will lead the work on children and smartphone use that has been commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) along […]

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Blanket ban on teen smartphone use ‘potentially detrimental’, says academic

A leading academic tasked by the UK government with reviewing the effects of smartphones on teenagers has suggested blanket bans are “unrealistic and potentially detrimental”. Amy Orben, from the University of Cambridge, will lead the work on children and smartphone use that has been commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) along […]

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Potential harmful effects of banning teenagers' smartphone use for academic purposes

According to a major academic mission by the UK government to review the impact of smartphones on teenagers, a blanket ban is considered “unrealistic and potentially harmful.” Amy Oben, a former member of Cambridge University, leads the research on children and smartphone use commissioned by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), along with [...] Source The post Potential harmful effects of banning teenagers’ smartphone use…

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Re: Approaches to children’s smartphone and social media use must go beyond bans

Agreement: I AgreeBody: Dear Editor In the introduction to their paper Goodyear et al report that the overall health effect of smartphones and social media on children is “not clear cut” [1]. They seem to imply that the standard of the criminal justice system of “beyond reasonable doubt” needs to be achieved before public health intervention rather than the more usually applied civil judicial threshold of “balance of probabilities”[2]. The diffi…

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