Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199987467 ISBN 13: 9780199987467

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents

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Review

"Scholars and graduate students unfamiliar with the literature on youth media use could benefit tremendously from having this encyclopedic edition on their shelves. Parents, journalists, policymakers, and child media activists concerned about the increasing pervasiveness of digital media and its effects on kids could also gain valuable insights from this book, especially because Jordan and colleagues take a deliberately "balanced" and scholarly approach to media effects on children and adolescents rather than simply reiterate the often-hyperbolic rhetoric of the popular press. The effects of media on youth are complex, conditioned on the social contexts in which children are born and raised. This book gives the subject the scholarly precision and depth it requires." --Chance York, Kent State University

About the Author

Amy B. Jordan is Associate Director of Policy Implementation at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the research on youth and media. She is co-editor (with Dafna Lemish) of the Journal of Children and Media, and co-author/co-editor of four books, including the internationally published Children, Adolescents, and the Media (with versions available in English, Chinese, and Portugese). Her work appears in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, including Pediatrics, Communication Research, Journal of Family Communication, and Media Psychology and has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the recipient of the National Communication Association's Stanley L. Saxton Applied Research Award and the International Communication Association's Most Important Applied/Public Policy Research Award. Daniel Romer is the Director of the Adolescent Communication and Health Institutes of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. He directs research on the social and cognitive development of adolescents with particular focus on the promotion of mental and behavioral health. His research is currently funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He regularly serves on review panels for NIH and NSF and consults on federal panels regarding media guidelines for coverage of adolescent mental health problems, such as suicide and bullying. He is on the editorial boards of Youth and Society, Journal of Community Psychology, and Media and Communication.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199987467
• ISBN 13: 9780199987467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Jordan Amy B.