Devorah Heitner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 128b: Digital Media and Technology Expert Devorah Heitner on Helping Kids Be Screenwise · 3 Oct 2025 podcast

We all know what it's like to be left out of something.

We all know what it's like to get distracted and blow a deadline or have to stay up later than we want to.

So it's really important that we acknowledge that we have wisdom from our lived experience, even though we didn't grow up with a tiny supercomputer in our hands.

Sure.

So I'm a media scholar.

I have a PhD in media technology and society, which believe it or not is a real thing you can study.

And my early work in graduate school was about Sesame Street and the anti-racist curriculum of Sesame Street.

And then I ended up writing my dissertation and first book about a movement in nineteen seventies television that was really about African American liberation struggles and television programs that came out of that.

But I continue to be interested in children's television and I taught

Classes at the university level.

went in my first five or six years on the tenure track called Kids Media Culture and other classes like that, where I would go with

my twenty year old college students out to places like American Girl, interview families and talk to them about purchasing decisions.

We would interview third graders about their media ecology and their homes and who made the decisions and the rules about what they could and couldn't want.

And what I found is my students who were then the this was sort of the tail end of millennials because I was teaching college until twenty twelve.

So my twenty year old students were

very concerned about what they heard third graders talking about and so

I thought that was really interesting.

So we were seeing this micro split of kids only maybe ten to twelve years younger than they were with completely different access because they had grown up with dial up, but these kids were starting to grow up with smartphones in the home.

They were growing up with social media.

They had much more access to a lot more content from things like YouTube.

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