Resource Database
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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...
Children, Youth and Families Consortium
From the website: The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium was established during the Fall of 1991 to build the capacity of the University of Minnesota and Minnesota communities to use research, influence policy and enhance practice… 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...
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 Kleeman
From the website: David Kleeman is President of the American Center for Children and Media, an executive roundtable and professional development hub that promotes exchange of ideas, expertise, and information as a means for building quality. 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...
Dimitri A. Christakis, MD MPH
Dimitri Christakis MD MPH, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His current research interest is the effect of media usage on young children’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social development. More...
Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) is one of seventeen divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). More...
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, National Science Foundation
From the website: The Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE) supports the National Science Foundation’s mission of providing leadership and promoting development of the infrastructure and resources needed to strengthen preK-12 SMT education throughout the United States. More...
Dorothy G. Singer, Ed.D.
Dorothy G. Singer is an expert on early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. More...
Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children. More...
Early Childhood Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Early Childhood Research and Practice
From the website: ECRP is a bilingual Internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children. More...
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
From the website: Early Childhood Research Quarterly is the scholarly journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). More...
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
From the website: ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. More...
Edward Markey
From the website: Edward J. Markey (D., Massachusetts) was instrumental in the passage of the Children’s Television Act of 1990,... More...
Elizabeth Vandewater, Ph.D.
From the website: Dr. Vandewater is the Director of the Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children (CRITC) at the University of Texas. Dr. Vandewater is a founding member of the NSF funded Children’s Digital Media Centers (CDMC). More...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. More...
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
From the website: The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media’s interaction with children and adolescents. More...
FatherLit Database
From the website: The FatherLit Database is a compilation of citations, annotations, and abstracts for over 8,500 basic and policy research publications on fathers, families, and child welfare. 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...
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
From the website: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is a multidisciplinary institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. More...
Gloria Tristani
From the website: Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani oversees the Benton Foundation’s work educating policymakers, academics, and activists about communications policy debates and advocating for tangible public interest benefits from the transition to digital broadcasting. More...
Good Start, Grow Smart
From the website: This booklet provides an overview of the Bush Administration’s Good Start, Grow Smart program, including program goals and accomplishments to date. More...
Handbook of Children and the Media
From the website: Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is the first and only all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. More...
Harvard Family Research Project
For over twenty years, Harvard Family Research Project has helped philanthropies, policymakers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. 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...
Hillary Rodham Clinton
As First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has served the public on behalf of children and families. More...
International Society for Technology in Education
From the website: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) provides leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education. 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...
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...
Jane Healy, Ph.D.
Dr. Jane Healy is a child development expert, a well-known author of Your Child’s Growing Mind and two-time U.S. Educator of the Year who currently serves as an internationally recognized lecturer and consultant. More...
Jayne James
Jayne W. James, Ed.D. joined the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as the Executive Director of “Ready To Learn,” a collaborative initiative between CPB and PBS. More...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… More...
John Boland
John Boland joined PBS in fall of 2006 as the organization’s first Chief Content Officer. In this role, Mr. Boland is responsible for television programming, new media, education and promotion. More...
John Cook Wright, Ph.D.
John Cook Wright, a professor and researcher in the Division of Human Development and Family Sciences whose specialization was the effects of media on children,... More...
John Lawson
John Lawson is the president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations, which is U.S. public television’s national advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. More...
John P. Murray, Ph.D.
Dr. Murray’s has conducted research on children’s social development for almost 40 years—starting in 1969 as a Research Coordinator for the Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health, in Washington. More...
Joseph Lieberman
Senator Lieberman, along with a bipartisan coalition of senators, crafted the Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act, which received unanimous Senate approval in September 2006. More...
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
From the website: The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media is the scholarly journal published quarterly by the Broadcast Education Association. More...
Journal of Communication
From the website: The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers. More...
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: Written for physicians, clinicians, psychologists and researchers, each bimonthly issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics is devoted entirely to the developmental and psychosocial aspects of pediatric health care. More...
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