Media literacy education to promote health among youth involves them in a critical
examination of media messages that promote risky behaviors and influence their …

Youth are inundated with media products promoting risky health behaviors (RHBs),
including substance use and risky sexual activity. Media literacy interventions emphasize …

Although numerous media literacy interventions have been developed and delivered over
the past 3 decades, a comprehensive meta-analytic assessment of their effects has not been …

Media, from television to the “new media”(including cell phones, iPads, and social media),
are a dominant force in children's lives. Although television is still the predominant medium …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Communicative messages are often constructed strategically. In many cases, the creators of
such messages strive to curtail specific anti-social or unhealthy attitudes and behaviors held …

This study added communication Internet skills to an existing skill framework of operational,
formal, information, and strategic skills. The study investigated how people deal with …

Use media literacy to reach all students! This book starts by asking," What does it mean to be
literate in today's world, and how can those literacy skills be developed?" The authors …

PURPOSE: To investigate, using an information processing model, how persuasive media
messages for alcohol use lead to concurring beliefs and behaviors among youths …

The United States has the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and birth in the Western
industrialized world, and research indicates that television and other mass media are …