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Joanne Cantor, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Description

Joanne Cantor, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an internationally recognized expert on children and the mass media. Professor Cantor received her B.A. at Cornell University in 1967 and studied communications and psychology at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., 1971), and at Indiana University (Ph.D., 1974). Her area of expertise is mass media effects, about which she has published more than 90 scholarly articles and chapters. Since the early ‘eighties, her research has focused primarily on the effects of television on children, with major emphasis on children’s emotional reactions to scenes involving violence and other disturbing images. This research, which is grounded in developmental psychology, has explored the types of mass media images and events that frighten children at different ages and the intervention and coping strategies that are most effective for different age groups. Her parenting book, “Mommy, I’m Scared”: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do To Protect Them, summarizes this research and its implications for a general audience. Her children’s picture book, Teddy’s TV Troubles, helps children and their parents cope with frightening media images and events.

Topic(s): Cognitive Development & Learning, Violence & Aggression

User Type(s): Academic, Educator, Journalist, Producer

Address

5205 Tonyawatha Trail
Monona , Wisconsin 53716

Contact Information

Phone(s): 608-221-0593
E-mail(s): .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
URL(s): http://www.yourmindonmedia.com

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