In June, my colleague Amy Warren and I set out to recruit families from the Greater Boston and Providence areas for Fluent Research’s first ever Research Camp, a new and innovative take on community-based action research. For this inaugural camp, we focused on recruiting Latinx...
Have you noticed vibrant color schemes, unconventional patterns, curated clutter, and an eclectic mix of styles popping up in your social media feed lately? If so, then you may be familiar with Gen Z maximalism— a bold and expressive design aesthetic that exemplifies the motto,...
In this special Kid Insight column, which originally appeared in Kidscreen Magazine last month, David Cohen, senior director of content research at Sesame Workshop, Stefanie Cousins, vice-president of marketing and communications at Fluent Research, and Sofia Polo, director of research strategy at Fluent Research, give insight...
One of the most consistent findings I have noticed while studying families and digital media over the years is that parents want their children to be less dependent on them. At the same time, however, parents must also supervise their children and ensure their children’s...
May is National Teen Self-Esteem Month. Self-esteem issues affect people of all ages. However, we are particularly at risk of experiencing a low sense of self-worth during our teenage years. At Fluent, we understand the importance of lifting up our young people and helping them...
A wise and dear professor once told me, “The medium is not the message. The message is the message.” And when television was the medium, that was certainly true. But is that still the case with the proliferation of interactive media for children taking hold?...
Last week Allison Caplovitz and Stefanie Cousins traveled to Miami to attend the Kidscreen Summit, one of the most important events for the kids’ entertainment industry. Attendees from all over the world return year after year to engage in critical conversations affecting the industry, conduct...
Digital contexts are becoming more prevalent in children’s lives than ever before, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to move various aspects of children’s lives online*. Since human development is a holistic and dynamic process between the developing person and his...
Next month Fluent’s Director of Content & Evaluation, Dr. Allison Caplovitz, will be returning to Miami to attend the Kidscreen Summit after the conference's two-year hiatus due to COVID. Allison’s favorite meeting of the year, the Kidscreen Summit is known as the most important annual event in...
Today, the most cutting-edge thinking about human development is holistic, dynamic, and emphasizes the relationship between the developing person and his or her context. This thinking is an important evolution; a stark contrast to outmoded ideas that see people as something to be molded by...