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Join over 250 top scientists and researchers from a broad range of disciplines
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Learn and exchange ideas on the cognitive, mental, physical and social impacts of digital media on youth, families, culture and learning.
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Identify and report on state-of-the-art research on the impact of digital media on developing minds i.e. children and adolescents.
Register for Breakout Sessions to set Future Research Agenda
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Help set the agenda for future research.
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Qualify to submit proposals for seed funding for collaborative, interdisciplinary research immediately following the conference.
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The Institute will Develop a consensus statement on what is a healthy media diet and guidelines for parents on how to raise happy, healthy children.
The National Academy of Sciences
Sackler Colloquia
October 13 - 16, 2015
Beckman Conference Center, Irvine, CA
2015 DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEVELOPING MINDS
CONFERENCE
CO-SPONSORS
CONFERENCE AGENDA
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Establish a dialogue between medical researchers and those in the social sciences who study media effects.
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Meet funders, educators and industry.
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Put new medically-based research techniques to use studying the potential impact of media use on children's developing minds.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
7:00 pm Registration & Welcome Reception
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
7:00 am Registration and Breakfast Buffet
8:15 Welcome – Pamela Hurst-Della Pietra
President, Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
President, Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Session I: Digital Media and Children by Development Stages
8:30 – 9:00 “Understanding Media’s Impact on Infants and Toddlers – a Pediatrician’s Perspective.”
Dimitri Christakis,
Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute
9:00 – 9:15 Questions
9:15 – 10:00 Panel: Research on the Impact of Digital Media on Early Childhood
Moderator and Panelist: Dan Anderson,
Professor Emeritus,
Director, Children and Media Lab,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Panelists:
Dan Anderson (see Moderator above)
Rachel Barr, Developmental Psychologist, Georgetown University
Heather Kirkorian, Director, Cognitive Development and Media Learning Lab, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Patricia Kuhl, Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning - Co-Director, UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE), Professor, Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington
Professor Emeritus, Director, Children and Media Lab, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute
Professor Emeritus, Director, Children and Media Lab, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Developmental Psychologist, Georgetown University
Director, Cognitive Development and Media Learning Lab, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning - Co-Director, UWash Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE)
10:00 - 10:15 Questions
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Virtually True: Children’s Acquisition of False Memories in Virtual Reality
Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University,
Founding Director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab,
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford
and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
11:00 – 11:15 Questions
11:15 – 11:45 New Research Methodologies in Studying Digital Media and Adolescents,
Michael Rich
Director, Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH) at Boston Children’s Hospital
11:45 – 12:00 pm Questions
12:00 – 1:00 "Industry Issues at Hand" Luncheon
1:00 – 1:45 Panel: Digital Media and the Social Lives of Tweens and Teens
Moderator: Amanda Lenhart, (what tweens and teens are doing now),
Associate Director, Research, Pew Research Center
Panelists:
Carrie James, Research Director, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Kathryn Montgomery, Professor, American University
Elizabeth Englander, Professor of Psychology, Director, Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, Bridgewater State University
Victor Strasburger, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Lynn Schofield-Clark, Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies, and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media, University of Denver
Director, Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH) at Boston Children's Hospital
PEW Research Center
Stanford University, Founding Director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Research Director, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Professor, American University
Professor of Psychology, Director, Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, Bridgewater State University
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies, University of Denver
1:45 - 2:00 Questions
Session II: Digital Media and Cognitive Development
2:00 - 2:45 Panel: Digital Learning
Moderator: Jeremy Roschelle,
co-director of the Center for Technology in Learning
at SRI International.
Panelists:
Naomi Baron, Executive Director, Center for Teaching, Research and Learning,
Professor of Linguistics, American University
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist of computer use,
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Technology,
and Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine
John Pane, Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation and Co-Director,
Carnegie Mellon and RAND Traineeships in Methodology and Interdisciplinary Research (CMART)
co-director of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International.
Executive Director, Center for Teaching, Research and Learning, Professor of Linguistics, American University
Cultural anthropologist of computer use, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Technology, and Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine
Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation and Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon and RAND Traineeships in Methodology and Interdisciplinary Research (CMART)
2:45 - 3:15 Questions
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:00 Media and ADHD-related symptoms
Patti Valkenburg,
Professor of Communication, University of Amsterdam
4:00 – 4:15 Questions
4:15 - 5:00 Panel: Does Media Multitasking Change the Structure of the Developing Brain?
Moderator: David Meyer
Director of the Brain,
Cognition and Action Laboratory,
Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Panelists:
Anthony Wagner, Director, Stanford Memory Lab, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Senior Consultant, Strategic Business Insights
Larry Rosen, Past Chair and Professor of Psychology, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Melina Uncapher, Research Scientist, Stanford University, Co-founder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience
Director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Professor of Communication, University of Amsterdam
Director, Stanford Memory Lab, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University
Senior Consultant, Strategic Business Insights
Past Chair and Professor of Psychology, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Research Scientist, Stanford University, Co-founder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience
5:00 - 5:30 Questions
7:00 - 9:00 ¡Viva Mexico! Dinner
Session III: Digital Media and Social / Emotional / Physical Development
8:15 - 9:15 Panel: What Does Science Tell Us About Violent Videogames?
Moderator: Rowell Heusmann
Amos Tversky Collegiate Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology
and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan
Panelists:
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Craig A. Anderson, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, Iowa State University
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Tom Hummer, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
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Jay Hull, Professor of Psychology, Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
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Barbara Krahe, Psychologist, University of Potsdam, Germany
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Angela Campbell, Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
9:15 - 9:45 Questions
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:30 Texting and its impact on face-to-face communication in Adolescents
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science
and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT
and the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
10:30 - 10:45 Questions
10:45 – 11:45 Panel: Digital Immersion in Children and Adolescents – Addiction or Obsession?
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, Iowa State University
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
Professor of Psychology, Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Psychologist, University of Potsdam, Germany
Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
Moderator: Charles O’Brien,
University of Pennsylvania,
Chairman of the Committee Chargedwith Evaluating Whether
to Incorporate Internet addiction in the New DSM-V
Panelists:
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Douglas Gentile, Director, Media Research Lab, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
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Kimberly Young, Founder and Director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery, St. Bonaventure University
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David Strayer, Director, Applied Cognition Lab, University of Utah
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Megan Moreno, Adolescent Medicine, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Principal Investigator, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Center for Child Health Behavior and Development, Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team
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Stephanie Brown, Director, The Addictions Institute
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Koh Young-Sam, Director, Internet Addiction Counseling Center, South Korea
11:45 – 12:15 Questions
12:15 - 2:15 Flash Talk, Poster Sessions and Lunch
Ed Donnerstein
2:15 - 3:15 Panel: Digital Media and Psychological/Emotional/Physical Development in Adolescents
Moderator: Harold Koplewicz,
Director, Child Mind Institute
Panelists:
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Charles A. Czeisler, Chairman, National Sleep Foundation, Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
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Dan Romer, Director of the Adolescent Communication Institute (ACI), Annenberg Public Policy Center
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Jason Chein, Associate Professor Department of Psychology (Brain, Behavior, & Cognition), Temple University
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Adam Gazzaley, Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of California, San Francisco
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Tom Robinson, Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Stanford University
3:15 - 3:45 Questions
3:45 – 4:15 Closing Remarks
7:00 – 9:00 "Perils and Promises" Documentary Film Evening
Interactive discussion to follow
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Host: Dafna Lemish,
Dean of the College of Mass Communication
& Media Arts
Founding Editor of the Journal
of Children and Media
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee charged with evaluating whether to incorporate Internet addiction in the new DSM-V
Director, Media Research Lab, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
Founder and Director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery, St. Bonaventure University
Director, Applied Cognition Lab, University of Utah
Adolescent Medicine, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Principal Investigator, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Center for Child Health Behavior and Development, Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team
Director, The Addictions Institute
Director, Internet Addiction Counseling Center, South Korea
Director, Child Mind Institute
Chairman, National Sleep Foundation, Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Adolescent Communication Institute (ACI), Annenberg Public Policy Center
Associate Professor Department of Psychology (Brain, Behavior, & Cognition), Temple University
Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of California, San Francisco
Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Stanford University
President, Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Pamela Hurst-Della Pietra, President, Institute of Digital Media and Child Development,
Amy Jordan, Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Patricia Greenfield,
Distinguished Professor of Psychology; Director, Children's Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles, UCLA
Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Arizona
Thursday, October 15, 2015
7:30 – 8:15 Breakfast
Friday, October 16, 2015
8:00 Breakfast buffet
Participants who stay until the Friday Breakout Sessions will be eligible to apply to receive seed grants!
8:45 - 9:00 Introduction to Breakout Sessions
Melina Uncapher, Research Scientist,
Stanford University,
Co-founder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience
9:00 - 12:00 Participants will break up in small groups and brainstorm and flesh out a prioritized future research agenda concerning the impact of digital media on children and adolescents that have been proposed by workgroups during the year.
12:00 - 1:00 Break, Working buffet lunches served in and near breakout rooms
1:00 - 2:45 Breakout sessions to develop and flesh out a prioritized research agenda
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:30 Report Out
Small group discussions leaders:
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Carrie James, Research Director, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Amy Jordan, Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
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Barbara Wilson, Executive Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, University of Illinois
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Vicky Rideout, VJR Consulting, former Director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program for the Study of Media and Health
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Rosemarie Truglio, SVP of Curriculum & Content, Sesame Workshop
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Kathryn Montgomery, Professor, American University
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Sandy Calvert, Director, Children’s Digital Media Center, Georgetown University
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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Associate Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience, Brain and Creativity Institute; University of Southern California
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Dr. Michael Rich, Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital
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Melina Uncapher, Research Scientist, Stanford University, Co-founder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience
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Dimitri Christakis, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute
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Rebecca Collins, Senior behavioral scientist, Director Health Promotion and Disease Prevention program, RAND Health, RAND Corporation
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Jane Brown, James L. Knight Professor Emerita, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
4:30 - 5:00 Concluding Remarks – Ellen Wartella,
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication,
Professor of Psychology and
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy,
Northwestern University School of Communication
Special thank yous to Dr. Jane Brown and Dr. David Meyer for organizing this conference with me and to Susan Marty of the National Academy of Sciences for her tireless efforts. Also, we wish to thank Dr. David Donoho.
-- PDHP
FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA: BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Research Scientist, Stanford University, Co-founder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University School of Communication
Research Director, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Executive Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, University of Illinois
VJR Consulting, former Director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program for the Study of Media and Health
SVP of Curriculum & Content Sesame Workshop
Professor, American University
Director, Children’s Digital Media Center, Georgetown University
Associate Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience, Brain and Creativity Institute; University of Southern California
Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital
Research Scientist, Stanford University, Co-founder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience
Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Senior behavioral scientist, Director Health Promotion and Disease Prevention program, RAND Health, RAND Corporation
James L. Knight Professor Emerita, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill