The latest episode of Panorama on BBC One explores the impact of smartphones on children and raises questions about their usage. The episode, airing on Monday, investigates what happens when smartphones are taken away from kids for a week, with the help of two families and remote cameras.
The experiment aims to find out if the absence of smartphones leads to increased family conversations, improved sleep, or a sense of missing out on interactions with friends and access to new information. With calls for smartphones to be banned for children, journalist Marianna Spring looks into the potential harms of the content pushed to their feeds.
She speaks to parents, teenagers, and social media company insiders to gain insights into the effects of screen time on young people and the role of social media platforms in their lives.
Panorama: Can We Live Without Our Phones? airs Monday, 2 September 2024, at 8:00 pm on BBC One.
