Faculty member receives grant to study the impact of digital media on child development

Stephanie Reich, UCI associate professor of education, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to research how digital media influences child development. Data from her earlier NICHD-funded Baby Books 2 project will be used to describe the media habits of ethnically and linguistically […]

The health effects of media exposure

LiveWell, July 20, 2020 (Podcast)

CSUF, UCI and Cal Poly Pomona professors team up for study to fight bias, racism in social media

Orange County Register, June 24, 2020

Social media offers students a ‘lifeline' in age of anxiety

University Business, June 24, 2020

How does media play into trauma?

Psychology Today, June 9, 2020

Let's weaponize social media against COVID-19

Slate, May 15, 2020

Gov. Ron DeSantis shames media, outbreak models' doomsday predictions: Off by nearly 500k in Florida

Brietbart, May 1, 2020

Coronavirus Twitter map developed at UCI displays social media reactions to COVID-19

To give the public a sense of how social media conversations about COVID-19 are happening in real time, UCI computer scientists have developed and launched a coronavirus Twitter map. The interactive resource visualizes the spatial and temporal distribution of tweets related to the pandemic, allowing users to view the growth and transformation of social media […]

'Media overload' can raise anxiety during coronavirus crisis

UPI, April 8, 2020

Beware of 'Media Overload' During Coronavirus Crisis, Experts Say

HealthDay, April 6, 2020