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Ask the Experts—WebinarGet Screen Smart: Essential Tech Knowledge Needed for Digital Parenting
The tech children use is evolving at a dizzying pace, making it difficult for families to keep up. What do parents need to know to best support child health and safety?
Media LiteracyArtificial Intelligence (AI)ParentingSocial MediaSpeakersDiana Graber
Founder
Cyber Civics and Cyberwise
Robbie Torney
Head of AI & Digital Assessments
Common Sense Media
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Communication, University of Connecticut
Matthew Johnson
Director of Education
MediaSmarts
Pamela Wisniewski, PhD
Principal Research Scientist
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
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Congresses2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress
ON DEMAND NOW: Congress Sessions
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Ask the Experts—WebinarUnreal: 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?
Media LiteracyBrain and CognitionSpeakersDiana Graber
Author, "Raising Humans in a Digital World,"; Founder, Cyber Civics and Cyberwise
Imran Ahmed
Founder and CEO, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Joel Breakstone, PhD
Executive Director, Digital Inquiry Group
Andrew Shtulman, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Occidental College
Rakoen Maertens, PhD
Juliana Cuyler Matthews Junior Research Fellow in Psychology, New College, University of Oxford
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Ask the Experts—WebinarSafe Zone: Children and Online Safety
What can parents and caregivers do to equip youth with the skills and protections needed to keep themselves safe online?
Media LiteracyParentingSocial MediaVideo GamingSpeakersMarc Berkman, JD
CEO, Organization for Social Media Safety
Sherri Hope Culver
Director, Center for Media and Information Literacy; Professor, Temple University
Sonia Livingstone, OBE, FBA
Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science; Director, Digital Futures for Children Centre
Fareedah Shaheed
Internet Safety Expert, Sekuva
Titania Jordan
Chief Parent Officer, Bark Technologies
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Ask the Experts—WebinarCopycat: Social Contagion, Online Viral Behavior, and Youth
What should parents and caregivers know about vulnerability to social contagion—and how is it being supercharged by the large volume of digital content and social media algorithms?
Social MediaMedia LiteracyMental HealthParentingPhysical HealthSpeakersVicki Harrison, MSW
Program Director, Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Andrea Giedinghagen, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, PhD, MMSc
Professor of Public Health, Head of the Public Mental Health Research Unit, Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical University of Vienna
Pamela Wisniewski, PhD
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering, University of Vanderbilt
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Congresses2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress
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Ask the Experts—WebinarThe Social Brain on Screens
What are the functions of the social brain in childhood and what strategies can encourage healthy social development in youth?
Media LiteracySocial MediaSocial RelationshipsSpeakersMoriah Thomason, PhD
Barakett Associate Professor and Director of Pediatric Neuroimaging; Vice Chair for Research
Departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine; Investigator, NYU Langone Neuroscience Institute
Eva Telzer, PhD
Co-Director; Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain, and Psychological Development; UNC Chapel Hill
Shimi Kang, MD, FRCPC
Psychiatrist; Best-selling author of The Tech Solution; Clinical Associate Professor
The University of British Columbia
Georgene Troseth, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
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Ask the Experts—WebinarTaken to Extremes: Online Radicalism, Polarization, and Youth
How do extremists target youth? How does digital media impact polarization, and what steps can we take to limit the features of digital media that contribute to extremism in youth?
Social MediaMedia LiteracyVideo GamingSpeakersBrian Hughes, PhD
Associate Director
PERIL
Paul Barrett, JD
Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Jennie King
Head of Climate Research and Policy; Head of Civic Action and Education
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Alex Newhouse
Senior Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies
Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Katie Paul
Director
Tech Transparency Project
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Ask the Experts—WebinarCaptive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising
How does hidden online advertising impact children's attitudes and behaviors? How and why is youth data collected, and what can or should be done to safeguard children online?
Social MediaAdvertising and MarketingEthical DesignMedia LiteracySpeakersBonnie Patten, Esq.
Executive Director
truthinadvertising.org
Susan Linn, EdD
Lecturer in Psychiatry; Research Associate
Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
Michelle Rosenthal, Esq.
Senior Staff Attorney
Division of Advertising Practices, FTC
Omni Cassidy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine