Welcome to the Children's Digital Media
Center. We are a consortium of universities funded by
the National Science Foundation. Our goal is to shed
light on how entertainment media impact the development
of youth and then disseminate that information to policy
makers and businesses to create a quality media environment.
Join us in making this vision a reality.
Sandra Calvert, Professor of Psychology
Director, Children's Digital Media Center
The CDMC comprised of Sandra Calvert, Daniel Anderson,
Ellen Wartella and Elizabeth Vanderwater was awarded
new funding to study the effects of digital media on
very early development. Very young children now spend
a significant amount of time in the presence of digital
media. Over the next 5 years, the CDMC research team
will track media exposure and examine how infants and
toddlers come to read a screen, a necessary skill for
them to understand media content.
