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Keynote I: "From Growing the Digital World … to Growing Up in the Digital World"
by Assistant Prof. Dr. Katherine Tombeau Cost Offord Centre for Child Studies; McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | |
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Dr. Katherine T. Cost will give an introduction to the historical context for digital media and technology development with a special focus on the media environment children grow up in today. While digital technology brings both, potential benefits and risks, the potential harms have given rise to diverse recommendations and guidelines by different health agencies globally. Dr. Cost will discuss these efforts to mitigate harms associated with media technologies and some of the challenges in researching media technology use. She will also present findings from her own studies on child health outcomes in relation to child digital media use and discuss the relevance of the findings for practice. | |
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