The Children’s Digital Media Center (CDMC) is a five-university consortium uniting a national community of scholars, researchers, educators, policy-makers, and industry professionals in a community whose goal is to improve the digital media environment in which children live and learn. Funded by the National Science Foundation, CDMC is working to gain a greater understanding of how interactive digital media experiences affect children’s long-term social adjustment, academic achievement, and personal identity. Specific objectives include:
• Monitoring and synthesizing emerging research trends in the area of children and interactive digital media
• Carrying out a program of collaborative research on interactive digital media and its effects on children
• Encouraging broader understanding of digital media through comparative communication analysis, particularly comparisons with other electronic media
• Promoting more effective application of research by developing collaborative projects with industry and policy communities
• Disseminating knowledge about children and digital media through conventional and online publication, workshops, and conference presentations
