The Digital Wellness Lab is a nonprofit research institution seeking to understand and promote positive and healthy digital media experiences for young people, from birth through young adulthood.
Our Areas of Study
Social Media & Its Effects
We strive to better understand how social media influences young people’s peer and family relationships, physical and mental health, and overall well-being, using novel methodologies that center the experience of the individual and move away from a “one-size-fits-all” mentality.
Design Strategies for Healthy Tech
Because the tech and media industry holds the power to change how products are designed, delivered, and marketed to youth, one of the goals of our work is to advance child-centered design strategies that lead to healthier, safer, more positive experiences for young users.
Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU)
We work closely with the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders (CIMAID) to better understand the characteristics and risk factors of problematic interactive media use (PIMU) in order to develop intervention strategies for clinicians and the pediatric healthcare industry at large.
Media & Development
Since access to media starts at an early age, and can lay the foundation for media habits and health outcomes throughout a child’s development, we explore how the content and delivery mechanisms of various types of media affect children’s and teens’ experiences and outcomes.
Conversations with Clinicians: Meredith Gansner, MD
Pulse Survey (August 2023) — Exploring the Nuances of Young People’s Social Media Use and Experiences
4 Filters for Digital Wellness
