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Enough with the moral panic over smartphones. The kids are all right

6 mins | Sep 3, 2017
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Enough with the moral panic: social attitudes are changing, but you can’t blame everything on smartphones. Catharine Lumby, a media professor at Macquarie University responds to Jean Twenge’s research, which suggests that smartphones are making teenagers more lonely and depressed.

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