Welcome to the Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, & Families

The Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families is a college research center dedicated to researching the impact of information technologies on humans--specifically children, youth, and families.  Through research and outreach, the Center provides critical insights and data on information technology issues of concern to families, educators, policymakers, and business and agency leaders.

The Center brings research collaborators from within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and throughout the university and beyond to focus their research questions in an interdisciplinary mode and to share findings broadly with communities in Virginia, nationally, and internationally. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are involved in forming the collaborative teams posing research questions, gathering scientific data, analyzing and publishing findings.

Welcome from Dr. Peggy S. Meszaros, Director

The Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families was founded on November 1, 2000 and we have much to celebrate. Expanded partnerships, new Center affiliates, an incredible sponsored research track record, international linkages and industry support and recognition are just a few of our highlights. The bottom line is expanded opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to become involved with research investigating the impacts of technology on families. It is these new scholars who will make the significant advances we need to truly understand how media saturation is changing the way we live and interact.