Children, Adolescents, and the Media - Softcover

Strasburger, Victor C.; Wilson, Barbara; Jordan, Amy B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141299926X ISBN 13: 9781412999267

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Third Edition provides a comprehensive, research-oriented overview of how the media impact the lives of children and adolescents in modern society. The approach is grounded in a developmental perspective, focusing on how young people of different ages and levels of cognitive, emotional, and social development interact with the media. Incorporating the most up-to-date research available, Authors Victor C. Strasburger, Barbara J. Wilson, and Amy B. Jordan target areas most controversial and at the heart of debates about the media and public health―equipping students to approach the media as critical consumers.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor C. Strasburger is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico. He graduated from Yale College, where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren, and from Harvard Medical School. He trained at the Children′s Hospital in Seattle, St. Mary′s Hospital Medical School in London, and the Boston Children′s Hospital. He has authored more than 160 articles and papers and 12 books on the subject of adolescent medicine and the effects of television on children and adolescents. In 2000, he was recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics′ Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in Adolescent Medicine and the Holroyd-Sherry Awrd for outstanding achievement in public health and the media. He is a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics′ Committee on Communications, has served as a consultant to the National PTA and the American Medical Association on the subject of children and television, and lectures frequently throughout the country.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 141299926X
• ISBN 13: 9781412999267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 672