![[PODCAST] Episode 10 - Q&A with Dr. Delaney Ruston, filmmaker of 'Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age']([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1569347156/parktudor/fhe3lmo8nauhkq0ao0hy/360_ruston.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1569347156/parktudor/fhe3lmo8nauhkq0ao0hy/360_ruston.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1569347156/parktudor/fhe3lmo8nauhkq0ao0hy/360_ruston.jpg","width":601}])
This episode is the live recording of the Q&A following the Park Tudor screening of 'Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age'. We discuss the effects of healthy vs unhealthy screen use for teenagers, kids, and adults.
About Dr. Delaney Ruston from delaneyruston.com:
Delaney Ruston is a filmmaker, Stanford trained physician and international speaker who makes documentaries to foster social change. She is the creator of the award-winning film, Screenagers, about raising successful youth in the digital age. Over 2 million people have come out to public screenings in over 50 countries thus far.
As a known expert on this topic, Delaney is invited to speak at Google, The Aspen Institute, conferences, schools, and others, and her views are often in the press, such as Good Morning America, NPR, New York Times and many others. Examples of other films include Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia, about her father and Hidden Pictures about global mental health.
Ruston has partnered with groups such as the World Health Organization in creating advocacy campaigns and has won several awards for her efforts. A Fulbright Scholar and former researcher in Bioethics and Communication, Dr. Ruston has been faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and at Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York. Along with filmmaking Delaney currently provides medical care to the underserved and homeless, which she has done for over a decade.
About Screenagers from screenagersmovie.com:
Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time—friction she knew all too well.
In SCREENAGERS, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and offers solutions on how adults can
empower kids to best navigate the digital world and find balance.
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Twitter: @delaneyruston . @screenagersfilm
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