Resource Database
“Journalist” Results
“G” is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Sesame Street
From the website: This volume…serves as a marker of the significant role that Sesame Street plays in the education and socialization of young children. More...
A Systematic Review for the Effects of Television Viewing by Infants and Preschoolers
The purpose of this work was to conduct a systematic review of experimental trials for the effects of television viewing by infants and preschoolers. More...
A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Webcast of the Panel Discussion accompanying the release of the report. ... examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products… More...
A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products (videos and DVDs, computer software, and video games) for very young children and what kind of research has been conducted to substantiate the educational claims. More...
Academy for Educational Development
From the website: Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. More...
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...
Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT)
From the website: AIT is one of the largest providers of instructional TV programs in North America. More...
Alice Cahn
Alice Cahn, vice president of acquisitions and development for daytime on Cartoon Network/US draws on an extensive career immersed in the world of children’s entertainment as she writes a new chapter at this renowned entertainment center for youth. More...
American Academy of Pediatrics
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
American Center for Children and Media
From the website: The American Center for Children and Media—an ‘executive roundtable’ for TV and digital industry leaders—is headquartered in Chicago, IL. More...
American Psychological Association
The APA publishes research journals and books dealing with issues related to all aspects of media impact on children, and the website provides links to articles for parents. More...
American Public Television (APT)
From the website: For more than 48 years, American Public Television has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations. More...
Amy B. Jordan, Ph.D.
Amy B. Jordan is a Senior Research Investigator at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1996, Dr. Jordan has served as the director of research for the Media and the Developing Child sector at the Center. More...
An Environmental Scan of Children’s Interactive Media from 2000-2002
From the website: This report represents an in-depth scan of the children’s interactive media environment. More...
Annenberg Public Policy Center
From the website: Established in 1993, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences, and convenes roundtable discussions that highlight important questions about the intersection of media, communication, and public policy. More...
Association of Public Television Stations (APTS)
APTS is a nonprofit membership organization established to represent the interests of its members - the nation’s public television stations. More...
Baby Videos Deceptive, Advocacy Group Argues
In the Complaint, CCFC said Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby lure parents into thinking babies will be smarter if they watch the videos. More...
Barbara O’Keefe, Ph.D.
From the website: Barbara J. O’Keefe (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Dean of the School of Communication and Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. More...
Bill Isler
From the Family Communications, Inc. website: Bill Isler is a longtime professional educator and advocate for children. More...
Board on Children, Youth, and Families
From the website: The Board on Children, Youth, and Families brings the multidisciplinary knowledge and analytic tools of the behavioral, health and social sciences to bear on the development of policies, programs, and services… More...
Brown Johnson
From the website: Brown Johnson is Executive Creative Director of Preschool Television for Nickelodeon. 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 Early Care and Education
From the website: AED’s Center for Early Care and Education strives to enhance the lives of all under represented, at-risk children and families… More...
Center for Media Education
When Action for Children Television closed its doors in 1992, the Center for Media Education assumed the role of carrying on ACT’s work. More...
Center for Research on Child Well-being
From the website: The Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW) is an interdisciplinary center at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research. 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...
Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children
From the website: CRITC is dedicated to furthering research and knowledge on the effects of electronic media on children’s social development and academic achievement. More...
Center for Research on the Effects of Television
CRETV has two components: an archive of television content and a research lab conducting studies of the content of television and its effects on viewers. More...
Center on Media and Child Health
From the website: The Center on Media and Child Health is dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of children through research, production, and education. More...
Cheryl A. Leanza
From the website: Cheryl A. Leanza, a public interest attorney and veteran First Amendment advocate, is the managing director of the UCC’s Office of Communication, Inc. More...
Child Trends
From the website: Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families. More...
Children and Computer Technology, Executive Summary
Ten recommendations are presented to ensure proper technology use and opportunities for children. More...
Children and Interactive Media - A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future
Arguing that very little is currently known about the role of interactive media in children’s lives, this report aims to gather and review existing research in an effort to further such knowledge. More...
Children and Interactive Media - Research Compendium Update
From the website: This report is an update of the Children and Interactive Media: A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future report to the Markle Foundation from October 2000. More...
Children Now
From the website: Children Now is recognized as a leading national public policy organization working to ensure children have a healthy and diverse media environment. More...
Children Youth and Families Education and Research Network
From the website: CYFERnet is a national network of Land Grant university faculty and county Extension educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families. More...
Children’s Defense Fund
From the website: The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind(r) mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start… More...
Children’s Digital Media Center
The Children’s Digital Media Center unites a national community of scholars, researchers, educators, policy-makers, and industry professionals in a community whose goal is to improve the media environment in which children live and learn. More...
Children’s Learning from Educational Television: Sesame Street and Beyond
From the website: This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. 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...
Chuck Wilson
From the Website: Chuck forged many of AIT’s present partnerships and continues to pursue others to fund AIT’s various instructional and professional development products and services. He is responsible for the Agency’s move to digital distribution of materials. More...
Commercial Alert
From the website: Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,... More...
Common Sense Media
From the website: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. More...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
The mission of CPB is to facilitate the development of, and ensure universal access to, non-commercial high-quality programming and telecommunications services. More...
Cynthia Fenneman
Cynthia A. Fenneman is a broadcasting and production executive with 31 years of experience in commercial, public and network cable television. More...
Dafna Lemish, Ph.D.
Professor Dafna Lemish is Editor of the Journal of Children and Media. She has written extensively on children and media. 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...
Daniel R. Anderson, Ph.D.
Daniel R. Anderson has made it his life’s work to answer such questions as they relate to infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. “My research,” he says, “focuses particularly on the cognitive and educational aspects of children and television.” More...
David Walsh, Ph.D.
Dr. Walsh is the president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family based in Minneapolis, MN. More...
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