Resource Database
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Action Alliance For Children
AAC is a resource for policy makers, children’s service providers and advocates, and the media. More...
Adults and Children Together Against Violence
From the website: ACT-Adults and Children Together-Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach young children ages 0 to 8 years. 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...
Barbara Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor Wilson’s research focuses on children’s responses to the media, particularly fear responses and responses to televised violence. 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...
Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research
From the website: This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children’s television, covering fifty years of academic research on 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...
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...
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...
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...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… More...
Joanne Cantor, Ph.D.
Joanne Cantor, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an internationally recognized expert on children and the mass media. Her area of expertise is mass media effects, about which she has published more than 90 scholarly articles and chapters. 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...
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...
Parents Television Council
From the website: The Parents Television Council was founded in 1995 to ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media. More...
PEDIATRICS
From the website: PEDIATRICS is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. 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...
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