Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)

How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them.What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults assumptions, they are not simply addicted to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their Screens, Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, Harvard researchers who are experts on teens and technology, explore the complexities that teens face in their digital lives, and suggest that many adult efforts to helpGet off your phone! Just dont sext!fall short.Weinstein and James warn against a single-minded focus by adults on screen time. Teens worry about dependence on their devices, but disconnecting means being out of the loop socially, with absence perceived as rudeness or even a failure to be there for a...