Handbook of Children and Screens

This open access handbook synthesizes the current research about the impacts of digital media on children across development. Drawing on the expertise of scientists and researchers as well as clinicians and practitioners, the book summarizes research through interdisciplinary expert reviews. First, it addresses the cognitive, physical, mental, and psychosocial impacts on infants, children, and adolescents. Next, the book explores how media influences relationships, family, culture, and society. Finally, it examines the impacts of specific digital domains pertinent to youth, including education technology, video gaming, and emerging technologies. Chapters employ a parallel structure, including background on the topic, summary of the current state of the research, future research directions, and recommendations for relevant stakeholders. The volume examines the timely issue of optimal child development in an increasingly digital age, offering innovative approaches to establish a solid and robust scientific foundation for this field of study as well as evidence-based action for adults who support positive youth development.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Cognition and brain development.

• Physical and mental health.

• Problematic uses of the internet.

• Race.

• Gender and sexuality.

• Parenting in the digital age.

• Cyberbullying and digital cruelty.

• Media policy.

The Handbook of Children and Screens is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, educators, and related professionals in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, social work, public health, epidemiology, neuroscience, human development and family studies, social psychology, sociology, and communication.

This is an open access book.

Describes the cognitive, physical, and psychosocial impacts of digital technology on infants, children, and adolescents Explores how media influences individuals as well as relationships, family, culture, and society Examines the impacts of specific digital domains pertinent to youth (e.g., education technology, video gaming) This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH., is the George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, the Chief Health Officer at Special Olympics International, Editor in Chief of JAMA Pediatrics, and Chief Science Officer at Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development. He has devoted his career to investigating how early experiences impact children and to helping parents improve their children's early learning environments. He and his colleagues in the Christakis Lab have made a number of landmark findings, including discovering that young children who watch TV are more likely to develop attention problems and other health and behavioral issues. He is the author of more than 250 original research articles, a textbook on pediatrics, and co-author of the book, The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids . He has appeared on CNN, NPR, Today, CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News and was recently featured as a TEDx speaker.

Dr. Christakis began serving as an expert witness in social media litigation in September 2023.

Lauren Hale, Ph.D., Professor of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine; Core Faculty, Program in Public Health; Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, studies the social patterning of sleep health and how it contributes to inequalities in health and well-being with current or previous funding from NICHD, NIDDK, NHLBI, and NIA in addition to private funding. Dr. Hale has more than 160 publications in peer-reviewed journal articles. She serves on the Board of Directors (recently as Chair) of the National Sleep Foundation and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sleep Health as well as the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Pajama Program and Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Global Perspectives on Youth and the Digital Environment: Learnings from Majority World Countries.- Part I. Research Concerning Cognitive, Physical, Mental, and Psychosocial Impacts on Children.- Digital Media, Cognition, and Brain Developmen t.- Chapter 3. Introduction to the Section on Digital Media, Cognition, and Brain Development.- Chapter 4. Digital Media, Cognition, and Brain Development in Infancy and Childhood.- Chapter 5. Digital Media, Cognition, and Brain Development in Adolescence.- Chapter 6. The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Media Multitasking and Digital Distraction.- Chapter 7. Digital Media Use and Language Development in Early Childhood.- Chapter 8. Screen Media and Children's Imagination, Creativity, and Play.- Chapter 9. Screen Media and Neural, Learning, and Developmental Differences.- Physical Health and Digital Media .- Chapter 10. Introduction to the Section on Screens and Physical Health.- Chapter 11. Digital Screen Media Use, Movement Behaviors, and Child Health.- Chapter 12. Screen Media, Obesity, and Nutrition.- Chapter 13. Digital Food Marketing and Young People's Health and Well-Being.- Chapter 14. Portrayals of Harmful Products in Digital Media: Corporate Influences on Adolescent Health.- Chapter 15. What Is Known About the Link Between Screens and Sleep Health.- Chapter 16. Screen Use, Physical Injuries, and Orthopedic Health.- Chapter 17. Screens and Ocular Health.- Mental Health and Digital Media .- Chapter 18. Introduction to the Section on Mental Health and Digital Media.- Chapter 19. Youth and Anxiety: Is It Time to Unplug from Screens?.- Chapter 20. Screen Media and Depression.- Chapter 21. Media Influences on Self-Harm, Suicidality, and Suicide.- Chapter 22. Social Media and Youth Mental Health: A Departure from the Status Quo.- Chapter 23. Social Media Use, Body Image Concerns, and Disordered Eating Among Adolescents.- Chapter 24. Identifying Risk for Mental Health Problems Related to Social Media: Who Is Most at Risk?.- Chapter 25. Leveraging Digital Media to Promote Youth Mental Health: Prevention of Mental Health Problems Related to Media.- Chapter 26. Digital Therapeutics in Child Psychiatry: Harnessing Technology to Treat Pediatric Mental Health.- Problematic Use of the Internet in Childhood and Adolescence .- Chapter 27. Introduction to the Section on Problematic Use of the Internet in Childhood and Adolescence.- Chapter 28. A General Perspective of Problematic Internet Use.- Chapter 29. Problematic Social Media Use in Childhood and Adolescence.- Chapter 30. Gaming Disorder Among Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 31. Dysregulated Use of Mobile/Smart Phones.- Chapter 32. Treatment and Prevention of Internet Use Disorders in Children and Adolescents.- Well-Being on Social Media: Enhancing Positive Communication, Relationships, and Identity .- Chapter 33. Introduction to the Sectionon Well-Being on Social Media: Enhancing Positive Communication, Relationships, and Identity.- Chapter 34. Adolescent Online Communication Practices in a Digital World.- Chapter 35. Youth Digital Well-Being and Social Connectedness.- Chapter 36. Empathy, Kindness, and Dignity in a Connected World.- Chapter 37. Youth and Popular Culture: Parasocial Relationships and Fandom.- Chapter 38. Online Self-Presentation and Identity: Insights from Diverse and Marginalized Youth.- Chapter 39. Youth Engagement in Participatory Politics: Understanding and Supporting Civic Engagement in the Social Media Era.- Part II: Research on How Media Influence Relationships, Family, Culture, and Society.- Race, Racism, and Digital Media .- Chapter 40. Introduction to the Section on Race, Racism, and Digital Media.- Chapter 41. Structural Racism in Tech: Social Media Platforms, Algorithmic Bia…