HCHY List: another item on adolescents and the media

[Mel Tremper]

This is from the Internet Scout Report A publication of Internet Scout.

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Using the Media to Promote Adolescent Well-Being [pdf]
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/spring_children_ha
skins/spring_children_haskins.pdf

 

Many researchers and parents are concerned about the effects of the
media on adolescents. It's in no way a new concern, but there is a
renewed interest in how media can potentially be harnessed to combat
some of the more pernicious messages disseminated by mainstream media.
This particular 8-page brief released in April 2008 takes on that very
subject. The brief is part of "The Future of Children" initiative, which
is jointly sponsored by Princeton University and The Brookings
Institution. Authored by Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue, Ron Haskins, and
Marisa Nightingale, the brief suggests that nonprofit groups and
associations can effectively "draw teens into conversations by supplying
them with expertise and tools they can share with their friends to
become advocates to one another." The report goes on to suggest that
working with new media and social networking sites may be more effective
than trying to rally against such new forms of expression.

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