ScreenTime
ScreenTime
Podcast Description
Being a parent today means having to manage our children’s digital lives. Playgrounds aren’t just outdoors anymore, and childhood is spent increasingly on screens in digital spaces.
ScreenTime features conversations with experts and researchers to help parents navigate the challenges that come with parenting in the digital age.
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The show focuses on parenting in the digital age, covering topics such as the impact of social media on adolescent mental health, identity development in digital contexts, the long-term effects of screen time, cyberbullying prevention tactics, video game addiction, and balanced screen time approaches. Specific episodes include discussions on the 'double-edged sword' of social media, insights from major research studies like the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, and expert advice on creating family media plans.
Being a parent today means having to manage our children’s digital lives. Playgrounds aren’t just outdoors anymore, and childhood is spent increasingly on screens in digital spaces.
ScreenTime features conversations with experts and researchers to help parents navigate the challenges that come with parenting in the digital age.
Researcher Danny Muñoz Lopez studies the connection between media use and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. While the focus often centers on mental harms from technologies like social media, Lopez notes that social media can also provide connection for young people, especially for those from historically marginalized groups. She also emphasizes the need to include young people in discussions around children and technology.
Resources mentioned:
Social media test drive
https://socialmediatestdrive.org/
Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship
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