ABOUT Aimee Dorr

Aimee Dorr is a professor of education at UCLA. Trained as a developmental psychologist, her research has focused on the ways in which children make sense of electronic media and their content and on the circumstances in which the content becomes influential in children's lives. Most of this work has been about television (traditional, cable, video) content designed for formal or informal education and content designed primarily to entertain.



A related area of work in the late 70s and again recently is media literacy, the habits of mind that enable students to do well in interpreting, using, and creating content in any medium or technology. Media literacy formulations include information seeking behaviors and evaluation of the information encountered. Dorr has consulted for television production groups, software companies, state educational media organizations, broadcasters, the FCC, and the FTC. She has assisted in various media literacy and technology integration projects for students and teachers. For 8 years, she served as the Director of Educational Technology for what was then the Graduate School of Education.



For the last 3 years, she has served on UCLA's Instructional and Research Computing Committee. Dorr is a member of the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Society, International Communication Association, and Society for Research in Child Development; she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.