The Instagram decade: #hashtag holidays and other travel trends
Travelling by rail, staying at an Airbnb, trying a wellness retreat … whatever you did it was most likely captured on your phone. We look at how travel changed in the 2010s
The hell of individuation and how dancing could be the cure
With our bodies so absent in modern communication, maybe the key to reconnecting as a community lies in the physical
Dopamine fasting is a tech fad that sounds silly – but might just work
Depriving your brain of stimulation can rewire your frazzled neural circuits – but the problem runs deeper than that
Wakey wakey! The artists healing our sleep-deprived world
From experiments in light deprivation to ‘unfitness monitors’, works by Douglas Coupland and others in this urgent exhibition resist the 24/7 demands of late capitalism
Barely any UK teens meeting exercise and screen time guidelines
Canadian researchers developed guidelines relating to exercise, screen time and sleep
One in three UK teenagers ‘ashamed of their body’
Findings prompt calls for weight loss ads to be vetted and social media firms to pay levy
We’re deluged with images of ‘beauty’. No wonder so many of us feel so bad
Adverts for weight-loss and cosmetic procedures bombard us on social media, undermining our self-confidence, says the Guardian columnist Dawn Foster
We’re a nation of scrollers, not readers – but it’s tech billionaires’ fault
Stop feeling guilty about not reading books! Netflix and Twitter really are to blame, so stick it to the man by chomping on a chapter a day
From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey
Memes bring out the best in people: their wit, their absurdist thinking, their quick turns of phrase
Social media addiction is not natural or normal – but is it really a disease?
We should be focusing on living with Facebook et al, rather then abandoning, restricting or censoring it, says technology writer Roisin Kiberd