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.

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.

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

Associate Director, CDMC@LA

WELCOME

RECENT PUBLICATIONS


Constructing the virtual self on MySpace

by G. Salimkhan,  A.M. Manago,  & P.M. Greenfield (2010).  Cyberpsychology, 4(1), Article 1.


Book review, Yalda T. Uhls and Kaveri Subrahmanyam on Hanging out and messing around, and geeking out: Kids living and learning with new media by M. Ito, S. Baumer, M. Bittanti, d. Boyd, R. Cody, B. Herr-Stephenson, H. Horst, P. Lange, D. Mahendran, K. Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, D. Perkel, L. Robinson, D. Sims, and L. Tripp, 2010.

Social Media may make kids more likely to value fame:  Survey by Yalda T. Uhls


Developmental Psychology on Interactive Technologies and Human Development,

edited by Greenfield, Subrahmanyam, & Eccles. 


Me and my 400 friends by Adriana Manago,

Tamara Taylor, and Patricia Greenfield.

NEWS: MOST DOWNLOADED ARTICLE

FROM DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE LAST TEN YEARS!


Developmental Psychology, 2012 Vol 48(2)Special Section:


Competitive versus cooperative exergame play for African American adolescents’ executive function skills: Short-term effects in a long-term training intervention.

pg. 337-342

Staiano, A.E.; Abraham, A.A.; Calvert, S.L.


Online racial discrimination and the protective function of ethnic identity and self-esteem for African American adolescents. 

pg. 343-355

Tynes, B.M.; Umana-Taylor; Adriana, J.; Rose, C.A.; Lin, J.; Anderson, C.J.


Friending, IMing, and hanging out face-to-face: Overlap in adolescents’ online and offline social networks.

pg. 356-368

Reich, S.M.; Subrahmanyam, K.; Espinoza, G.


Me and my 400 friends: The anatomy of college students’ Facebook networks, their communication patterns, and well-being.

pg. 369-380

Manago, A.M.;  Taylor, T.; Greenfield, P.M.


Association between online friendship and Internet addiction among adolescents and emerging adults.

pg. 381-388

Smahel, D.; Brown, B.B; Blinka, L.


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