Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan announced Monday the appointments of five members of the Texas House of Representatives to the Joint Committee to Study the Effects of Media on Minors.Created by House Bill 18 during the 88th Regular Session, the joint legislative committee is tasked with examining the health and developmental effects of exposure to minors of various forms of media, including social media platforms, software applications, mass media, artificial intelligence, mobile devices, computers, video games and virtual and augmented reality.“This generation of developing young Texans is more regularly exposed to various forms of media than any previous ...