Press & Media

Selected Press writing & appearances

• Letter: Technology is a scapegoat for society’s teen traumas, Amy Orben & Thomas Metherell, Financial Times, 2023

• Does social media make teens unhappy? It may depend on their age, Virginia Hughes, The New York Times, 2022

• The question we’ve stopped asking about teenagers and social media, Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 2021

• Amy Orben: ‘To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope’, Andrew Anthony, The Observer, 2020

• Don’t despair if your child is glued to a screen, it may be keeping them sane, Amy Orben, The Observer, 2020

• Social media doesn’t make teenagers unhappy, huge study shows, Chris Smyth, The Times (front page), 2019

• The trouble knowing how much screen time is too much, Amy Orben, BBC News, 2018

• The need for nuance in the tech use debate: A conversation with Amy Orben, DJ Neri, Behavioural Scientist, 2018