Screen Deep
by Children and Screens
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About this podcast
Screen Deep takes aim at decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.
Host Kris Perry dives deep with a leading expert in each episode to explore how children and adolescents are affected mentally, physically, and developmentally by digital media use, bringing research and evidence-based perspectives to the essential questions on how to help children thrive today.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 40 episodes
- Do Social Media Child Safety and Content Moderation Features Work? with Laura Edelson, PhD · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 39Most social media platforms provide child safety and content moderation features to help protect young users from harmful content and experiences. Do they work? Will changes…
- Artificial Intimacy: What Happens When We Turn to AI for Connection? with Sherry Turkle, PhD · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 38Humans of all ages are increasingly relying on AI chatbots as intimate and always-supportive social companions. What are the costs of this reliance on “pretend empathy” when it…
- Why the Internet Should be Made Safer for Children - Not the Other Way Around with Baroness Beeban Kidron · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 37The early egalitarian promise of an open and free internet has morphed over the past three decades into an algorithm-driven experience that is designed to addict and extract data…
- The False Promise of Tech and AI in Schools with Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 36Has the widespread use of "educational" technology and AI in schools led to declines in children’s learning outcomes and skill development, rather than promised improvements? In…
- The Costs of Using Devices to Calm Children with Peter Reschke, PhD · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 35The usage of phones and tablets to help calm infants and young children in difficult moments is often effective in the moment – yet how is the development of self-calming skills…
- The Science of Raising Humans in the Age of AI with Dana Suskind, MD · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 34The rise of AI is often presented as an opportunity to make parenting easier, but what happens when technology begins to replace, rather than support, the human interactions…
- Influencers and Kids: The Power of Online Personalities | Liselot Hudders, PhD · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 33The rise of influencers has changed the conversation around advertising, marketing, and behavior change in adults as well as children. How do influencers and their sponsored…
- How Toxic Food Marketing Affects Child Health with Kelly Brownell, PhD · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 32Children today are inundated with sophisticated marketing and ads online, particularly for unhealthy foods which can contribute to obesity and other negative health impacts. On…
- What Matters for Young Children's Healthy Digital Media Use and Learning? With Rachel Barr, PhD · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 31For decades, researchers have studied why babies and young children learn differently from screens than they do from real-world experiences. On this episode of Screen Deep, host…
- Making Social Media Safer: How Lawsuits Are Changing the Game with Matt Bergman · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 30As courts increasingly examine the impact of social media on young people, new legal approaches are beginning to reshape how responsibility for harms are understood, shifting the…
- Measuring How Screens Change Young Brains with Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 29How is digital media use rewiring children’s brains – and how can these impacts be measured? In this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris Perry discusses the latest research on…
- Does Age of Smartphone Ownership Affect Child Health? With Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 28How do online environments shape children’s health and well-being? Which features have the biggest impact, and how can we make sense of the very different ways individual…
- The Costs of Youth Attachment to AI Companions with Pilyoung Kim, PhD · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 27AI “friends” and companions are increasingly providing children and adolescents with social interactions and perceived “relationships,” despite being a technology that itself has…
- Does AI Help Students Learn? With Adam Dubé, PhD · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 26Schools are increasingly deploying AI-powered technologies in classrooms that promise to revolutionize education, yet there is growing concern over the risks to children and…
- Are You Real? Ethics of AI Chatbots and Characters for Children with Sonia Tiwari, PhD · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 25Children are increasingly encountering AI characters for both educational and entertainment purposes, but many of the chatbots and other AI products they interact with are not…
- How Phones Are Making Us More Lonely and Addicted with Meredith David, PhD · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 24What is the social cost of looking at your phone when in the company of other people? Is smartphone and social media use making us less connected, more lonely, and addicted to…
- Is My Child Ready for a Smartphone? With Adam Pletter, PsyD · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 23A child’s first smartphone is a modern "rite of passage" and today's parents face a challenging decision – when is the right time? Peer pressure and fear of missing out loom…
- Phones in Schools? What the Research Says with Abe Flanigan, PhD · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 22Should phones be allowed in the classroom? On this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris Perry talks with Dr. Abraham Flanigan, an associate professor of educational psychology at…
- Ditch the Guilt: Media, Stress, and Parent-Child Relationships with Dr. Lara Wolfers · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 21Parents increasingly recognize how family screen time shapes child development. But that awareness can bring guilt or shame when digital devices creep into daily life. On this…
- Cyberbullying, Sexting, and Building Resilience in Youth with Elizabeth Englander, PhD · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 20Social development for today’s youth often includes navigating online social cruelty, such as cyberbullying and non-consensual sexting. On this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris…
