What if It’s Not the Phones?
An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Kaitlyn Tiffany is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery and Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, and the co-author of On Nobody Famous: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivanting. Before joining The Atlantic in 2019, Kaitlyn was a reporter for Vox’s consumer-culture vertical, The Goods. At The Atlantic, she writes about internet culture and technology.
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