Research Profile: Developing Minds & Digital Media

The Developing Minds and Digital Media Project (also known as DM2) is a study of the myriad ways in which “new digital media” (NDM)—such as the internet, cell phones, and the like—influence the culture, psychology, and creativity of young people and of adolescence as a developmental phase. We have been exploring these issues through qualitative interviews with professionals who work with adolescents and through content analyses of young people’s creations, including their writing and art work.

Key Publications

Learning: Peering Backward and Looking Forward in the Digital Era

Margaret Weigel, Carrie James, and Howard Gardner. International Journal of Learning and Media. March 2009.

‘Do Video Games Significantly Enhance Literacy?’

Howard Gardner . Congressional Quarterly Researcher. November 10, 2006.

The Best of Both Literacies

Margaret Weigel and Howard Gardner. Educational Leadership, March 2009.

Research Papers

“We Do Have a Voice!”: Trends in Adolescents’ Submissions to Teen Ink Magazine, 1990 to the Present

(March 2011) Download a PDF

Multiple Worlds: Adolescents, New Digital Media, and Shifts in Habits of Mind

(September 2009) Download a PDF

Social Development in the Era of New Digital Media

(February 2009) Download a PDF

New Digital Media, Social Institutions and the Changing Roles of Youth

(February 2009) Download a PDF

Developing Minds with Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era

(November 2007) Download a PDF