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Action for Children’s Television
From wikipedia.org: Action for Children’s Television (ACT) was founded by Peggy Charren in Newton, Massachusetts in 1968 as a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the quality of television programming offered to children. More...
Alliance for Childhood
From the website: While promoting a broad range of healthy essentials for children, the Alliance works intensively on certain critical issues. More...
Bringing Up Baby
This article focuses on different issues related to advertising and children. More...
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
From the website: Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children) is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents… More...
Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS)
The Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS) was established in 2001 with start-up funds from the Foundation for Child Development. Among its activities, CROCUS conducts research and organizes workshops on children and public policy. More...
Children, Adolescents, and Advertising
Media education has been shown to be effective in mitigating some of the negative effects of advertising on children and adolescents. More...
Children, Adolescents, and Advertising
Policy Statement from the Committee on Communications, American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) published in the December 2006 issue of Pediatrics. More...
Commercial Alert
From the website: Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,... More...
Dale Kunkel, Ph.D.
Dr. Dale Kunkel studies children and media issues from diverse perspectives, including television effects research as well as assessments of media industry content and practices. More...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. More...
Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
Creating an environment in which U.S. children and youth can grow up healthy should be a high priority for the nation. More...
Food-Related Advertising on Preschool Television:Building Brand Recognition in Young Viewers
This study used content analysis to explore how much and what type of advertising is present in television programming aimed at toddlers and preschool-aged children… More...
It’s Child’s Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. July 19, 2006. The Kaiser Family Foundation released the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of online food advertising to children… More...
Judge Baker Media Center
From the website: Established in 1994, Judge Baker’s Media Center seeks to unite media professionals, mental health practitioners and classroom educators in a single common pursuit: ensuring the health and well-being of children. More...
Marjorie Tharp
Marjorie Tharp is an assistant director for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Department of Federal Affairs in Washington, D.C. More...
National Institute on Media and the Family
From the website: The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nonprofit organization that is based on research, education, and advocacy. More...
Norma Pecora, Ph.D.
Dr. Pecora’s research interests focus on issues of gender and children and media, especially the political economy of the children’s television industry. More...
Nutritional Content of Food Advertised During the TV Programs Children Watch Most
The authors sought to code food (nutritional content and food type and eating occasion) and character (cartoon and live action) attributes of food advertisements More...
Peggy Charren
From the Jewish Women’s Archive website (http://www.jwa.org): Peggy Charren formed a non-profit organization called Action for Children’s Television (ACT), which advocated for higher quality, less commercialized children’s television programming and fought censorship. More...
Sandra Calvert, Ph.D.
Sandra L. Calvert, is Chair and Professor of the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, a multi-site interdisciplinary research Center funded by the National Science Foundation. More...
Susan Linn, Ed.D.
From the website: Susan Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has written extensively about the effects of media and commercial marketing on children. More...
The Children’s Television Community
From the website: The Children’s Television Community presents a cutting-edge analysis of the children’s television community… and gives an overview of the history, current state, and future of children’s programming. More...
Timothy E. Wirth
As President of the UN Foundation since its inception in early 1998, Wirth has led the Foundation’s efforts to build and implement public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems. The UN Foundation also broadens support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. More...
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