Does Age of Smartphone Ownership Affect Child Health? With Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD

About this episode

The episode explores how online environments impact children's health and well-being through a discussion with Dr. Ran Barzilay.

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 Deep, host Kris Perry discusses new research into this “digital exposome” with Dr. Ran Barzilay, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Barzilay explains how researchers are beginning to measure and quantify online environ...

People in this episode

Host: Kris Perry

Guest: Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD

Topics covered

• child health
• smartphone ownership
• digital environments
• well-being
• research

Keywords

• smartphone
• child health
• digital exposome
• online environments
• well-being
• research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Pennsylvania

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