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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...
Aletha Huston, Ph.D.
From the website: Aletha C. Huston…. specializes in understanding the effects of poverty on children and the impact of child care and income support policies on children’s development. More...
American Academy of Pediatrics
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Center for Screen-Time Awareness
From the website: Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness provides information so people can live healthier lives in functional families in vibrant communities by taking control of the electronic media in their lives, not allowing it to control them. 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...
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...
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...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. More...
George Gerbner, Ph.D.
From wikipedia.org: George Gerbner (August 8, 1919 - December 24, 2005) was a communication theorist, the founder of cultivation theory (mean world theory), and a poet. More...
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
From the website: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. More...
James P. Steyer
From the website: As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families More...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… 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...
Parents Rely on TV To Help Them Perform Balancing Act, Researchers Say
Parents see TV as the way to manage busy schedules, keep the peace, and facilitate routines such as meals and bedtime. More...
Parents’ Action for Children
From the website: Parents’ Action for Children was founded in 1997 by actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele as the I Am Your Child Foundation (IAYC). More...
Patti Miller, M.A.
From the website: Patti Miller, Vice President and Director of the Children & the Media Program, oversees independent research projects on children and the media and monitors public policy developments in the communications field as it affects children. More...
Studying Media Effects on Children and Youth: Improving Methods and Measures, Workshop Summary
Workshop Summary (2006). Board on Children, Youth and Families More...
The Children’s Partnership
From the website: The Children’s Partnership is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan child advocacy organization with offices in Santa Monica, CA and Washington, DC. More...
The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers and Their Parents
The report… is based on a national survey of 1,051 parents with children age six months to six years old and a series of focus groups across the country. More...
The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers and Their Parents
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. May 24, 2006. The report… is based on a national survey of 1,051 parents with children age six months to six years old and a series of focus groups across the country. More...
UNICEF: MAGIC (Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with, and for Children)
From the website: In 1996 the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which advises governments on their implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child held a consultation on children and the media. More...
Victoria Rideout, M.A.
Victoria Rideout, M.A. is a Vice President at the Kaiser Family Foundation and director of the Foundation’s Program for the study of Entertainment Media and Health. More...
Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN)
From the website: WECAN’s mission is to nurture the work with young children from pre-birth to age seven, based on an understanding of the healthy development of the child in body, soul and spirit. More...
Weekend Watchers
British researchers have found that people who watched a lot of TV as young children were more likely to be obese in adulthood. More...
Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. October 28, 2003. Zero to Six takes a look at electronic media in the lives of infants, toddlers and preschoolers. More...
Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
In order to help understand the implications, the Foundation conducted a national study of more than 1,000 parents of children ages six months through six years. More...
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