This guide provides evidence-based practical tips and checklists on how to manage screen time for children and adolescents in Singapore to help them build a normalised, lifelong relationship with technology. The guide discusses how screen use has both positive and negative effects. It finds screen use has a less significant role in wellbeing than other...

This essay argues that modern democracies are caught in a 'digital-democratic doom loop' in which declining trust in the state is increasingly misdirected at democratic institutions. It seeks to deepen understanding of how social media is contributing to the erosion of faith in democracy and points towards practical ways to safeguard a democratic future.

The report shows the ways Australian adults connect and interact in 2025, and how this has changed over the past nine years. It focuses on how they use phone services and apps for calls and messages, and the ways they use communications and social media sites and apps. Mobile phones remained the primary way Australians...

The Australian Government has taken world-leading action to reduce online harms experienced by young Australians by introducing a minimum age of 16 to access social media. The Online Safety Act 2021 (the Act) was amended in November 2024 to introduce a social media minimum age framework. This fact sheet sets out the background, legal framework...

A study conducted to better understand teenagers’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots based on an online survey of 1,458 United States of America teenagers from September to October 2025. The report presents online platform use, platform use by demographic groups, use of AI chatbots and internet use.