by Thomas N. Robinson1& Dina L. G. Borzekowski. Evidence for adverse effects of screen media exposure has led to recommendations to limit children’s screen time. This paper describes a randomized controlled trial of SMART (Student Media Awareness to Reduce Television), an 18-lesson, theory-based classroom curriculum to reduce screen time among […]
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Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige offers a full exploration of how and why screens interfere with developmental milestones crucial to children’s well-being. Using specific, real-life examples, Dr. Carlsson-Paige illustrates the difference between what children “learn” from screens and what they learn through physical, hands-on activities. https://screentimenetwork.org/resource/technology-and-young-children-dr-nancy-carlsson-paige
Anna T. Prescott a, James D. Sargent b, and Jay G. Hull. To clarify and quantify the influence of video game violence (VGV) on aggressive behavior, we conducted a metaanalysis of all prospective studies to date that assessed the relation between exposure to VGV and subsequent overt physical aggression. The […]
Good afternoon and welcome to today’s briefing from the National Toxicology Program to announce its final conclusions for cell phone studies in rats and mice.
Jean M. Twenge, Gabrielle N. Martin, and Brian H. Spitzberg. San Diego State University. American Psychological Association. Trends in U.S. Adolescents’ Media Use, 1976–2016: The Rise of Digital Media, the Decline of TV, and the (Near) Demise of Print. Studies have produced conflicting results about whether digital media (the Internet, […]
Nature. by Kasun Ratnayake , John L. Payton, O. Harshana Lakmal & Ajith Karunarathne . Photoreceptor chromophore, 11-cis retinal (11CR) and the photoproduct, all-trans retinal (ATR), are present in the retina at higher concentrations and interact with the visual cells. Non-visual cells in the body are also exposed to retinal […]
by Erika Christakis in « The Atlantic » When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own. Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle—that […]
Erik Peper and Richard Harvey San Francisco State University. Digital addiction is defined by the American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as well as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as “… a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic […]
Jean M. Twenge, Thomas E. Joiner, Megan L. Rogers, and Gabrielle N. Martin (San Diego State University and Florida State University). Abstract : In two nationally representative surveys of U.S. adolescents in grades 8 through 12 (N = 506,820) and national statistics on suicide deaths for those ages 13 to […]
« I wake up in cold sweats thinking, what did we bring to the world ? » Tony Fadell, one of the minds behind the iPod and the iPhone, mulls design’s unintended consequences. By Katharine Schwab CO.DESIGN Tony Fadell’s wife likes to remind him when their three children’s eyes are glued to […]
Une étude publiée dans le journal « Nature ». Daily touchscreen use in infants and toddlers is associated with reduced sleep and delayed sleep onset Traditional screen time (e.g. TV and videogaming) has been linked to sleep problems and poorer developmental outcomes in children. With the advent of portable touchscreen devices, this […]