CHILDREN’S DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER, LOS ANGELES

Welcome to the homepage of Children’s Digital Media Center, Los Angeles (CDMCLA), a collaboration between researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). CDMCLA began in 2001 as part of a consortium funded for five years by the National Science Foundation. It is currently a collaborative effort between faculty, students, and visiting researchers in the Departments of Psychology at UCLA and CSULA.

Our mission is to study children, teens, and emerging adults’ interaction with the newer forms of interactive digital media and to see how these interactions both affect and reflect their offline lives and long-term development. We endeavor to keep up with the latest technologies used by young people.

We invite you to browse through these pages for more information about our projects and publications.

Best wishes,
Patricia M. Greenfield
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UCLA
Director, CDMC, LA

Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Professor of Psychology, CSULA

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Greenfield will give a keynote address on “Technology, Multitasking, and Education” on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 at the Learning & the Brain Conference, Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel and MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. On Sat, Nov 20, she will give a presentation at the same conference entitled “Teenagers, social networking, and relationships.”

Greenfield Science article, Technology and Informal Education: What is taught and what is learned, is the featured article this month for the Harvard Macy Institute, a training institute for healthcare educators all over the world

Subrahmanyam presented at Stanford on

September 29, at The Future of Children’s Media

in Education.

Greenfield and Subrahmanyam participated in the Media Multitasking Seminar at Stanford University [see Greenfield’s Stanford presentation here]

2009 Adolescents and Electonic Communication

2009 Are we losing the ability to think critically?

Subrahmanyam discusses adolescent behavior on cyberspace at the Society of Adolescent Medicine

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Special Issue: Social Networking on the internet; Developmental Implications

Volume 9, Issue 6, 2008

Guest Editors:
Patricia M. Greenfield and
Kaveri Subrahmanyam

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CDMC articles:

Virtual Worlds in Development: Implications of Social Networking Sites
Patricia M. Greenfield and Kaveri Subrahmanyam

Online and Offline Social Networks: Use of Social Networking Sites By Emerging Adults
Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Stephanie M. Reich, Natalia Waechter and Guadalupe Espinoza

Self-presentation and Gender on MySpace
Adriana M. Manago, Michael B. Graham, Patricia M. Greenfield and Goldie Salimkhan