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APPC News

FlackCheck.org videos receive 2013 Telly Awards

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Two FlackCheck.org videos about an imagined 1864 campaign against Abraham Lincoln using today’s technology and methods are the recipients of 2013 Bronze Telly awards: Steamboat Veterans for Truth and Battle Hymn.   The Telly Awards honor excellence in film and video productions, online video content, and local, regional, & cable TV commercials and programs. The …

APPC postdoctoral fellow offers expertise on new media and children

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Sarah Vaala, Ph.D., a Martin Fishbein postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, offered her expertise on the effects of new technologies on young children to the Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, N.J.). The article was also picked up by USA Today. Parents adopt their own rules for kids’ screen time (Courier-Post, May 21, 2013) Parents …

Children, Adolescents, and the Media now available in its third edition

Children, Adolescents, and the Media (Sage, Third Edition, 2013), co-authored by Victor C. Strasburger, M.D., University of New Mexico School of Medicine,  Barbara J. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and APPC Area Director Amy B. Jordan, Ph.D., has been updated to reflect cutting-edge research on the impact of media on youth. (From the …

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