May 23, 2016 May 23, 2016 APPC Research on Teens and Substance Abuse Is Highlighted The National Institute on Drug Abuse has highlighted research on teens and substance abuse by Annenberg Public Policy Center’s distinguished research fellow Atika Khurana and its research director, Dan Romer.READ MORE Adolescent Health and Risk Communication
January 14, 2016 January 14, 2016 APPC Receives Grant to Identify ‘Culture of Health’ on Top TV Shows The Annenberg Public Policy Center has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to identify a “Culture of Health” portrayed on popular TV shows. Studies will include Spanish-language shows.READ MORE Adolescent Health and Risk Communication
May 8, 2015 The Protective Effects of Parental Monitoring and Internet Restriction on Adolescents’ Risk of Online Harassment With many adolescents using the internet to communicate with their peers, online harassment is on the rise among youth. The purpose of this study was to understand how parental monitoring and strategies parents use to regulate children’s Internet use can help reduce online harassment among adolescents.READ MORE Adolescent Health and Risk Communication Journal Articles
March 18, 2015 March 18, 2015 Gun Violence Is Not Declining, Despite Drop in Homicide Rates In a new paper published in Human Communication Research, researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Ohio State University show that gun injury rates are a more sensitive indicator of the trend in gun violence than gun homicide rates.READ MORE Culture of Health and Media Portrayal in Our Nation
March 17, 2015 Distinguishing Hypotheses From Hyperbole in Studies of Media Violence: A Comment on Markey et al. n alleging that Bushman et al. (2013) made sensational and unsubstantiated claims, Markey et al. (2015) mistake hypotheses for hyperbole. Moreover, in their effort to show that gun violence in PG-13 movies (for ages 13 and older) is unrelated to trends in population violence, they make unjustified demands on our data, with outcomes that are unconnected to hypothesized effects. Using outcomes in line with our hypotheses, we draw the contrary conclusion that recent trends in gun violence in youth are actually consistent with gun violence trends in PG-13 movies. READ MORE Adolescent Health and Risk Communication Journal Articles
January 7, 2015 Monitoring, Mediating, and Modeling: Parental Influence on Adolescent Computer and Internet Use in the United States Proliferating internet-accessible media have altered the home context, raising questions about parental influence on youth computer/internet use. This study examines parents’ monitoring, internet mediation, and modeling behaviors as predictors of adolescents’ computer/internet use among 629 US adolescents and their parents. READ MORE Adolescent Health and Risk Communication Journal Articles