CHILDREN’S DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER
@ LOS ANGELES
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.
The Value of Fame: Preadolescent Perceptions of Popular Media and Their Relationships to Future Aspirations by Yalda T. Uhls and Patricia Greenfield
Greenfield and Subrahmanyam co-edited an article in a special section of Developmental Psychology. It’s called Interactive technologies and human development. The first articles are already online and the whole issue will be coming out in March.
Kids and credibility: An empirical examination of youth, digital media use, and information credibility. Reviewed by Dr. Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Greenfield presented Implications of Technology for Child and Adolescent Development at the U.S. Department of Education office of safe and drug free schools, Making the Connection
The Rise of Fame: An Historical Content Analysis by Yalda T. Uhls and Dr. Patricia Greenfield.
Click here for the press release from CDMC
Click here for the press release from UCLA
Time article - Number one value in Tween Television: Being Famous
Philadelphia Inquirer - Study: T.V. warps kids.
Parent Dish - T.V. tells kids fame is the most important thing in life, study finds.
A shift toward self, UCLA Magazine
Ts - Si - Television: Fame No. 1 Value for 9 - to 11 year olds.
Time Healthland article that discusses Uhls and Greenfield study on fame. The title of the article is called Is TV teaching kids to value fame above all?
Yalda T. Uhls spoke on Southern California Public Radio. The title of her interview is Fame as family value? Tween shows promote celebrity. You can listen directly to her interview by clicking here.
Yalda T. Uhls spoke on Southern California Public Radio along with Senator Ted Lieu. The topic of their discussion is Sexting punishable by expulsion. You can listen directly to their discussion by clicking here.
In February, Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Peggy Orenstein spoke at Google, Santa Monica about their respective books. The video of the event will be on the Google channel series.
Digital Youth: The role of media in Development
by Kaveri Subrahmanyam and David Šmahel.
Understanding the Online Teen Media Scene, A review of Digital Youth: The role of media in Development. By Jeanne Brockmyer
Cinderella ate my daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
by Peggy Orenstein.
Uhls, Y. T., Espinoza, G., Greenfield, P.,
Subrahmanyam, K., & Šmahel, D. (in press,
June 2011). Internet and other active
media. In B. B. Brown & R.Silbereisen
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence,
Oxford: Elsevier.
Greenfield presented at the Digital Media
and Learning conference. The conference
took place in Long Beach, March 3-5,
2011.
Yalda T. Uhls was co-chair and presenter
at SRCD on April 1, 2011. From Texting
to Social Networking Sites to Virtual
Worlds: Examining Youth Media Practices.
Greenfield presented Social Change, Culture and Human Development: The Role of Technology, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2010, Centre for the Study of New Literacies, The School of Education, The University of Sheffield.
Also presented as a keynote address to the International Colloquium, Childhood and Cultures (Enfances et Cultures), Paris, France on Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010 (sponsored by the French Ministry of Communication and Culture and the University of Paris.)
www.enfanceetcultures.culture.gouv.fr
Subrahmanyam on Fox News January 7, 2011
NOTABLE AND UPCOMING
