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Welcome to the homepage of the Children's Digital Media Center at UCLA, one of the first three center grants awarded by the National Science Foundation in Developmental Science. Our mission is to study children and teens' interaction with the newer forms of interactive digital media and to see how these interactions both affect and reflect their real world lives and long-term development. Our center is part of a four-university consortium that makes up the Children's Digital Media Center, with the lead center under the direction of Professor Sandra Calvert at Georgetown University. The other centers are located at the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University.Within our center there are four main threads of research. One line focuses on the culture of chat and will analyze transcripts of online chat for coded sexuality, racism, and language structure. Another line will study the neural basis of children's understanding of social relations when presented on video. A third line on teenagers and the Internet will examine what teenagers actually do on the Internet and will study how their Internet use relates to their social life in the real world. The fourth strand, digital media and chronic childhood illness, focuses on how young people can use the Internet to produce and access information about health.I invite you to browse through these pages for more information about these projects and for details about the various research teams involved in our center. Please check back frequently for updates and announcements regarding CDMC projects and events.Best wishes, Patricia Greenfield, Director
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news & announcements:
UCLA News release: Teenagers Find Information About Sex on the Internet When They Look for It -- And When They Don't, UCLA's Children's Digital Media Center Reports
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 627-769 (November-December 2004) features research articles by researchers and students of the Children's Digital Media Center, see below for links to the articles.
Developing Children, Developing Media - Research from Television to the Internet from the Children's Digital Media Center: A Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Rodney R. Cocking
Edited by Greenfield
**NEW**
Personal Web Home Pages of Adolescents
With Cancer: Self-Presentation, Information
Dissemination, and Interpersonal Connection
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What Went Wrong With The Sima Online: Cultural Learning and Barriers to Identification in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
Electronic media and human development: The legacy of Rodney R. Cocking • EDITORIAL
Pages 627-631
Patricia M. Greenfield and Sandra L. Calvert
Adolescent Internet use: What we expect, what teens report • Pages 633-649 Elisheva F. Gross
Constructing sexuality and identity in an online teen chat room • Pages 651-666
Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Patricia M. Greenfield and Brendesha Tynes
Adolescence, race, and ethnicity on the Internet: A comparison of discourse in monitored vs. unmonitored chat rooms • Pages 667-684
Brendesha Tynes, Lindsay Reynolds and Patricia M. Greenfield
The search for peer advice in cyberspace: An examination of online teen bulletin boards about health and sexuality • Pages 685-698
Lalita K. Suzuki and Jerel P. Calzo
Inadvertent exposure to pornography on the Internet: Implications of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks for child development and families • Pages 741-750
Patricia M. Greenfield
Developmental considerations for determining appropriate Internet use guidelines for children and adolescents • Pages 751-762
Patricia M. Greenfield
Understanding media development: A framework and case study • Pages 729-740 Barbara J. O'Keefe and Sean Zehnder
The impact of educational television on young children's reading in the context of family stress • Pages 717-728 Elizabeth A. Vandewater and David S. Bickham
Heroic DVD portrayals: What US and Taiwanese adolescents admire and understand • Pages 699-716
Sandra L. Calvert, Katherine J. Murray and Emily E. Conger
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