Sleep and Screens
A visual digest of current research on sleep and screens.
Online Sexual Exploitation, Grooming, and Extortion of Youth
What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know
Young Child Learning, Attention, and Screen Use | Heather Kirkorian, PhD
Unreal: Online Misinformation, Deep Fakes, and Youth
How can parents, caregivers, and educators help children think critically and develop skills to navigate misinformation and deep fakes in their digital lives?
Advertising and Marketing
…is used to promote products or ideas specifically to children and often leverages engaging visuals and interactive content to capture their attention and influence behavior. These tactics, which are often difficult for children to identify, are pervasive across applications, websites, and platforms, raising concerns about ethical practices, privacy, and developmental impacts.
Just about everything that kids encounter online is designed to sell them something…children are immersed in a digitized, commercialized culture. And it starts when they're really young.”
On Advertising and Marketing
Protecting Children In the New World of Online Advertising
Tips to help families understand the scope and impacts of the new world of online marketing to kids
Advertising and Kids: Let’s Take a (Commercial) Break
How does digital advertising and marketing influence children's behavior and health?
Deceptive Marketing Tactics on Popular Platforms for Kids
From "Captive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising"
Online Advertising, Unhealthy Foods, and Black Youth
From #AskTheExperts webinar "Captive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising"
Coercive Pressure to Spend Money in Video Games
From #AskTheExperts webinar "The Lure of Loot: Gambling and Manipulative Design in Youth Video Games"
The Influencer Impact: How Social Media Stars and YouTube A-Listers Shape the Way Kids Think, Act, and Interact
How to help children thoughtfully navigate the age of influencers and kidfluencers?
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