Youth Culture Update: Tweet, Tweet Victory

Instagram has announced that it now has 300 million active users, sprinting past such would-be rivals as Twitter. Instagram added 100 million users in the past nine months alone—which likely makes parent ...

Youth Culture Update: Bad Year for Kids

Around 15 million children are directly impacted by violence and war around the world, according to a new report by the United Nations Children's Fund, with another 230 million living in countries plagued wit...

Youth Culture Update: Tragic Game

In November 2014, a 19-year-old computer engineer named Lewis Daynes confessed to the stabbing murder of a 14-year-old boy he gamed with online. The boy, Breck Bednar, had been gaming with Daynes for months ...

Youth Culture Update: #Needed?

Because we know how laborious it can be to hold down a shift key while pressing the number 3, a London-based inventor is trying to raise money on Kickstarter to create a one-key keyboard "dedicated solely to th...

Youth Culture Update: High-Altitude Gaming

Do video games keep gamers from experiencing the joys of the great outdoors? Not if you happen to be William Cruz. Cruz won a contest sponsored by game maker Ubisoft to play the company's new game Far Cry 4 ...