2018 DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEVELOPING MINDS CONGRESS
CO-SPONSORED BY:
CHILDREN AND SCREENS: INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND
CHILD DEVELOPMENT & COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
Children and Screens joined forces with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to convene nearly 200 of the world's most experienced researchers, scientists, clinicians, and other experts at the intersection of digital media and child development for a four-day interdisciplinary Congress. Thank you to all who participated in this highly productive meeting. Please click the icons below for Congress highlights.
About the Congress
Executive Summary
Meet the Speakers
Congress Organizers
Talks and Panels
Agenda
Welcome Reception
Opening Remarks
Meet the Editors
Tools and Methodologies Exposition
Flash Talks
Poster Session
Gallery
Reviews and Testimonials
Videos
Workgroup Breakout Sessions
Bookstore
Closing Remarks

Executive Summary
Digital Media — laptop computers, iPads, iPods, and smartphones as well as other current and future electronic devices — are and will continue to be our children's constant companions. “The times, they've been changin’. ” Just a few years ago, children generally accessed words, images, sounds, and ideas (‘content’) in settings, or through channels, that adults could easily control.
However, this is no longer so. Children now grow up with portable, relatively low-cost, ‘personal’ devices that can and do go far from parental supervision.
Featured Clips

"...Children born today are not just digital natives, they're AI natives. They are living in a world, growing up in a world where they have always been able to interact with intelligent machines."
Cynthia Breazeal, Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
"The first rule for technology, of course, must be to do no harm, especially
for kids. And we have a lot to learn about how technology affects children.
That's why I introduced the children and media research advancement, or CAMRA
Act, and I've partnered with Democrat and Republican senators, senator Sass,
Blunt, Collins, Shots, and Bennett, on this legislation because the
legislation has to be bipartisan."
Senator Ed Markey
D-Massachusetts
