Digital Media, Attention Fracking, and Youth Mental Health

2026/03/16 by D. Graham Burnett, James D. Sargent · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Impact of Technology on Adolescents #Mental Health via Writing #Digital Mental Health Interventions

paper · doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2026.0055

openalex publication_date 2026/03/16 · openalex created_date 2026/03/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This Viewpoint discusses the correlation between increasing social media and device usage, the underlying business model of the attention economy, and declines in youth mental health and proposes solutions to address this.

Citations

• Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions

Discussions

• "The correspondence of increased social media and device usage with declines in youth mental health raises an important question: how can a globe-spanning crisis of psychosocial severing be the direct [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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