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Trevor Noah Foundation partners with Microsoft to help youth in South Africa

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The Daily Show host Trevor Noah launches the Trevor Noah Foundation in partnership with Microsoft to help orphans and at-risk...

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Researchers use social media to detect at-risk youth for self-inflicted harm

Omar Elorfaly2 years ago

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Researchers utilize social media platforms like Instagram to better understand self-inflicted harm and its causes in at-risk youth, and how...

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Mobile developers are using code to help end youth homelessness

Tim Hinchliffe2 years ago

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Developers are working to help end youth homelessness through open source applications and code to complete a survey on smartphones...

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Share a happy thought with O2 and help promote youth mental health

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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O2 Ireland wants you to share a happy thought on Twitter or Facebook to help promote young people’s mental health in Ireland. The telecommunications company has parntered with the Dublin-based charity Headstrong, @HeadstrongYMH work to raise awareness of mental health issues in young people who are at risk of suicide or self-harm.

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

Technology and the loneliness of young generations

We can all relate to feeling alone at some point or another, but for younger generations, this is a sensation that is becoming increasingly common.

According to a survey conducted by the Young Women’s Trust in the UK, One in four 18 to 30-year-olds report feeling isolated compared to one in 10 older people, aged 64 to 72. And in the US, millennials are the loneliest generation today according to research by YouGov.

Technology and social media have been heavily criticized for amplifying sensations of loneliness with one study conducted by psychologists at the University of Pittsburgh claiming the more time a young person spends on social media, the more likely they are to feel socially isolated.

To get a better understanding of how technology could be exacerbating feelings of loneliness, we spoke with two experts.

Our first guest is the Director of Research at Hopelab, a social innovation lab focused on designing science-based technologies to improve the health and well-being of teens and young adults. Dr. Danielle Ramo.

In addition to Dr. Ramo, we will be joined by Dr. Lisa Strohman -- a clinical psychologist and the founder of Digital Citizen Academy, a program created to help educate parents and children about the proper use of technology and the repercussions that technology may have.

And for our Weird Wide Web feature, where we highlight a bizarre story from the world of tech, we have a story about AI-generated head shots putting stock photo companies on edge.

Technology and the loneliness of young generations

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