{"id":18369,"date":"2025-04-03T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/blanket-ban-on-teen-smartphone-use-potentially-detrimental-says-academic\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:37:17","slug":"blanket-ban-on-teen-smartphone-use-potentially-detrimental-says-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/blanket-ban-on-teen-smartphone-use-potentially-detrimental-says-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanket ban on teen smartphone use \u2018potentially detrimental\u2019, says academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Amy Orben says there are no \u2018one-size-fits-all answers\u2019 given importance of access to online information<\/p>\n<p>A leading academic tasked by the UK government with reviewing the effects of smartphones on teenagers has suggested blanket bans are \u201cunrealistic and potentially detrimental\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Orben, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/feb\/01\/amy-orben-psychology-smartphones-affecting-brain-social-media-teenagers-mental-health\">University of Cambridge<\/a>, will lead the work on children and smartphone use that has been commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) along with a team of other academics from a number of UK universities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/03\/blanket-ban-on-teen-smartphone-use-potentially-detrimental-says-academic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f157306ef5b3fe5c770bec0f15d25bf8877b5aed\/0_47_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=986844d6620dae10e46c7484b14d2e08\" title=\"Blanket ban on teen smartphone use \u2018potentially detrimental\u2019, says academic\" \/>Dr Amy Orben says there are no \u2018one-size-fits-all answers\u2019 given importance of access to online information<br \/>\nA leading academic tasked by the UK government with reviewing the effects of smartphones on teenagers has suggested blanket bans are \u201cunrealistic and potentially detrimental\u201d.<br \/>\nAmy Orben, from the University of Cambridge, will lead the work on children and smartphone use that has been commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) along with a team of other academics from a number of UK universities. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Amy Orben says there are no \u2018one-size-fits-all answers\u2019 given importance of access to online information A leading academic tasked by the UK government with reviewing the effects of smartphones on teenagers has suggested blanket bans are \u201cunrealistic and potentially detrimental\u201d. Amy Orben, from the University of Cambridge, will lead the work on children and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/blanket-ban-on-teen-smartphone-use-potentially-detrimental-says-academic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blanket ban on teen smartphone use \u2018potentially detrimental\u2019, says academic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}