Children, Adolescents, and the Media

Children, Adolescents, and the Media

This text provides comprehensive, research-oriented background to the developmental impact of the varied interactions children and adolescents have with the modern media.  The approach is grounded in the media-effects tradition.  The authors target areas most controversial and at the heart of debates about mass media and public health, thus equipping students to approach the media as critical consumers.  Each chapter provides the latest research and seminal studies on such issues as advertising, violence, video games, sexuality, drugs, body image and eating disorders, music, and the Internet.  Because research alone can be dry and difficult to follow, each chapter is liberally sprinkled with illustrations, examples from the media, cartoons and other illustrations, policy debates, and real-life instances of media impact.  Also found throughout are sections on media literacy and recommendations for how students can help in the search for solutions to current media-related problems.  The Second Edition includes new chapters illustrating beneficial aspects of the media, including possibilities for encouraging prosocial development and educational media. The Second Edition of this bestseller now includes: - Two new chapters on Prosocial Aspects of the Media and Educational Media - A new chapter on Media and Family to show how families use media, how families are portrayed in media and how parents use mediation strategies (or don′t), and how siblings impact media use and effects. - Expansion of the `Questionable Language and Taste′ section in the Sex chapter to reflect a major current concern. - Examples from new studies in all chapters - Practical exercises and activities at the end of each chapter with updated and expanded examples and scenarios - Suggested readings and at the end of each chapter. “It is clearly written to be accessible for a vast array of audiences-from undergrads, to grad students, to industryprofessionals. In this sense, the new edition is truly "media education for all"-all reasons, allseasons, and all audiences. It is heartening to see the compilation of research and the careful writing that is displayed in this text. It isdestined to be a classic teaching and research tool for students and professionals.” -- John P. Murray Published On: 2010-11-30 Victor C. Strasburger is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico. He graduated from Yale College, where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren, and from Harvard Medical School. He trained at the Children′s Hospital in Seattle, St. Mary′s Hospital Medical School in London, and the Boston Children′s Hospital. He has authored more than 160 articles and papers and 12 books on the subject of adolescent medicine and the effects of television on children and adolescents. In 2000, he was recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics′ Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in Adolescent Medicine and the Holroyd-Sherry Awrd for outstanding achievement in public health and the media. He is a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics′ Committee on Communications, has served as a consultant to the National PTA and the American Medical Association on the subject of children and television, and lectures frequently throughout the country. Barbara J. Wilson is the Executive Vice Provost of Faculty and Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and also the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in the Department of Communication at UIUC. Her research focuses on the social and psychological effects of the media on youth. She is coauthor of three book volumes of the National Television Violence Study (1997–1998).She also co-edited the Handbook of Children, Media, and Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and has published over 100 articles, chapters, and technical reports on media effects and their implications for media policy. She currently serves on the editorial boards of five academic journals, including Media Psychology and the Journal of Media and Children . In 2008, she was elected as Fellow of the International Communication Association. She has served as a research consultant for Nickelodeon, the National Association of Television Program Executives, Discovery Channel Pictures, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amy B. Jordan is director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, where she oversees research on children′s media policy. Her studies have examined the implementation and public reception of the educational television mandate known as the Three-Hour Rule, the V-Chip legislation, the American Academy of Pediatrics′ media use recommendations and the industry′s efforts to self-regulate food marketing to children. Dr. Jordan has