Institute of Digital Media and Child Development

About Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development: Children and Screens (more formally, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development) is a nonprofit organization devoted to maximizing children's benefits, and minimizing their risks, from digital media. For more than five years, it has pursued answers to fundamental questions about the influence of media exposure on children's prospects for happy, healthy, and productive lives. Children and Screens is best known for convening thought leaders from diverse fields, and for promoting, funding, and disseminating their multidisciplinary research. Most recently, in January 2018, Children and Screens joined with the National Institute of Child Health and Development to organize and host a scientific workshop on Media Exposure and Early Child Development. Children and Screens previously organized and sponsored the publication of Children, Adolescents and Screens: What We Know and What We Need to Learn . That stand-alone supplement to Pediatrics (the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics) presented 22 articles, from over 100 named authors, and provided parents, practitioners, researchers and policy makers with a uniquely comprehensive view of this field. Children, Adolescents and Screens was a direct result of the first Digital Media and Developing Minds conference, which Children and Screens co-sponsored in 2015 with the Sackler Colloquia program of the National Academy of Sciences. That groundbreaking gathering brought together nearly 200 leading researchers, clinicians, and other experts in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, communications, education, public health, and public policy. The next Digital Media and Developing Minds National Congress, co-sponsored by Children and Screens and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, will be held on October 15-18, 2018.