New UNC center to study social media effect on children mental health
Chapelboro.com (Chapel Hill, NC) UNC is creating a new research center to examine long-term effects of technology and social media on social and emotional development.
UNC-Chapel Hill receives $10 million to study effects of technology
Philanthropy News Digest The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced a $10 million gift from the Winston Family Foundation to establish a center that will examine the long-term effects of technology and social media use on teen social and emotional development.
UNC-Chapel Hill will host new hub for research into how technology impacts child brain development
Spectrum News (Raleigh, NC) A wave of funding is now flowing into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study the impact of social media and technology on teenagers’ brains.
UNC-Chapel Hill and Winston Family Foundation launch national center to study effects of technology, social media on child brain development
UNC News Gift builds on three years of emerging research focused on link between technology use and teen mental health.
New UNC center will examine social media’s impact on teenage mental health
Triangle Business Journal (Raleigh, NC) A $10 million gift to UNC-Chapel Hill is supporting research into the long-term effects of technology and social media on teenagers.
New UNC-Chapel Hill research center will study link between technology and teen mental health
WCNC (Charlotte, NC) The center will help create more tools for parents, caregivers and teens to make better informed choices about how they interact with technology and social media.
This family foundation is quietly going to war with Facebook over how it affects kids’ brains
Forbes As Facebook morphs into a corporate pinata, increasingly loathed on both the left and right over its seemingly blithe regard for accuracy, democracy and the self-worth of girls, Jim Winston, the son of the late founder of a sizable family foundation, is quietly opening a multiplatform front against the social media giant, focusing on the effect such platforms have on adolescent brains.