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

Virtual Worlds

Linares, Cheng, Subrahmanyam, & Guan are invited panelist, Pre-conference on Peer relations, Society for Research in Adolescence, March 2010. Their paper is titled Connecting Developmental Processes to Virtual Worlds: The Case of Second Life

Social Networking

2010 Greenfield will give the Psi Chi Lecture at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association in Cancun, Mexico. It will take place at 11 am on Friday April 23.

Her lecture is titled Social Networking Online: Developmental Issues for Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Abstract: Young people are currently conducting a large part of their social lives online, through the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. What are the implications of these new communication media for the central developmental issues facing adolescents and emerging adults: identity, peer relations, and romantic relationships? Through a series of qualitative and quantitative studies conducted at Children’s Digital Media Center, Los Angeles, this presentation will address these questions.

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

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