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Trust in mass media is half of what it was in the 1970s, in part thanks to a wide range of less obvious ways journalistic ...

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The average teen spends five hours on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. What's different about me is how I think about all that content.

Individual responsibility plays a vital role in news literacy. Each of us can choose to depend on reliable news sources more ...

Adolescents find social media to be the most authentic media form, according to a new Center for Scholars and Storytellers at UCLA study. CSS, an adolescent-centered research group within the ...

A sensitive period for social learning coincides with the age at which many children use social media and encounter ...