This review summarizes recent findings (2000–2020) concerning media's contributions to
the development of gender stereotypes in children and adolescents. Content analyses …

Media permeate our lives and are so omnipresent that we take them for granted and
overlook their impact. Mobile communication devices, the internet, and social networking …

This article features a review of communication scholarship about sex from the past two
decades (2000-2020). A typographic analysis of relevant research reveals 11 primary topic …

A prominent feature of mainstream television, especially reality programming, is a
heterosexual script that outlines women's and men's traditional courtship roles. Although …

The current study investigates sexual scripts in reality dating shows—in particular, how the
gender of the communicator affects the choice of verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors …

Since 2015, Netflix has been one of the largest holders of teen viewers, greatly surpassing
cable TV and other streaming platforms. This study focused on depictions of romantic love …

This study seeks a deeper understanding of the associations between early adolescents'
encounter with sexualizing messages, both through media and peers, and self-sexualization …

Although content analytic research has examined casual sexual scripts in television
programming, less is known about how the relational context of sexual behaviors is depicted …

In light of recent research establishing the prevalence of the heterosexual script on
television (Aubrey et al., 2020; Kim et al., 2007), the present study investigated the context of …

Television narratives present conflicting information regarding heterosexual, adolescent
sexuality. In response to this, the present study examined the associations between …