Since 2008

Research

Researcher, speaker, author and founder of
Center for Scholars & Storytellers.

RESEARCH

I’ve been doing research since 2008 on how traditional and newer media impact the social behavior of preadolescents. I do research with the Children’s Digital Media Center @UCLA, for the Center for Scholars & Storytellers, Common Sense Media and through my own lab at UCLA.

For my academic CV, click here. For honors, advisory and community work, click here. If you are interested in working with me as a student, please visit my faculty page to learn more about my work. I also offer internships for UCLA students with the Center for Scholars & Storytellers.

To learn more about the research topics I study, click here.

Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke

“I come bearing good news: Out teens are not growing into brain-dead zombies or emotionally stunted sociopaths.”

– UCLA child psychologist Yalda T. Uhls, commenting on more than a decade of research that shows that the Internet does not erode children’s intelligence or emotional connection to the world.