How our technology use changed in 2020: Perspectives from three youths

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The Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness program (TAM) is a research program with the primary goals of promoting research on the topic of adolescent technology use and mental wellness, creatively disseminating that research, and fostering community among stakeholders. Our foundational question is this: How can technology support adolescent mental wellness? Youth are key stakeholders in pursuit of this foundational question. In this commentary, we invited 3 members of TAM's youth advisory board to respond to the following question: "How did your technology use change in 2020?" Jessica, Jared, and Babayosimi describe their technology use during COVID-19 as dynamic, and neither uniformly positive nor negative. Further, these 3 youths differ in their perceptions of the same technologies-social media and online school, for example-as well as their perceived ability to self-regulate use of those technologies. We invite you to weigh these perspectives just as we do at TAM-not as empirical findings in themselves, but as examples of youth ideas for future empirical investigation.

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Fadiran, B., Lee, J., Lemminger, J., & Jolliff, A. (2021, September 1). How our technology use changed in 2020: Perspectives from three youths. JMIR Mental Health. JMIR Publications Inc. https://doi.org/10.2196/26154

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