Social Media and Adolescent Health

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Health and Medicine Division and Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health

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Synopsis: Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising concerns among parents, physicians, public health officials, and others about its effect on mental and physical health. Over the past year, an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined the research and produced this detailed report exploring that effect and laying out recommendations for policymakers, regulators, industry, and others in an effort to maximize the good and minimize the bad. Focus areas include platform design, transparency and accountability, digital media literacy among young people and adults, online harassment, and supporting researchers.