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Screen Deep
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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 30 episodes
Screen Deep
Latest Episodes
Measuring How Screens Change Young Brains with Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD
How 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 screen use and brain development with Dr. Tzipi Horowitz-Krau...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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47:38
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Does Age of Smartphone Ownership Affect Child Health? With Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD
How 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 children experience the same digital world? On this episode of Screen...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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51:32
The Costs of Youth Attachment to AI Companions with Pilyoung Kim, PhD
AI “friends” and companions are increasingly providing children and adolescents with social interactions and perceived “relationships,” despite being a technology that itself has no need for empathy or emotional reciprocity. What are the costs ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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52:47
Does AI Help Students Learn? With Adam Dubé, PhD
Schools are increasingly deploying AI-powered technologies in classrooms that promise to revolutionize education, yet there is growing concern over the risks to children and adolescents’ learning by doing so. What do children, adolescents, and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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47:18
Are You Real? Ethics of AI Chatbots and Characters for Children with Sonia Tiwari, PhD
Children 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 designed with child development and safety in mind. On this episode ...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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51:12
