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The Future of Children AND Digital Media and Learning

Children and Electronic Media
Volume 18 Number 1 Spring 2008
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CONTENTS


Introducing the Issue
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue is associate editor of The Future of Children and a lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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Trends in Media Use
Donald F. Roberts and Ulla G. Foehr
Donald F. Roberts, the Thomas More Storke Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, has spent more than thirty years conducting research and writing about youth and media. Ulla G. Foehr is a media research consultant specializing in children and media use behaviors.

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Media and Young Children's Learning
Heather L. Kirkorian, Ellen A. Wartella, and Daniel R. Anderson
Heather Kirkorian is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Ellen Wartella is a professor, executive vice chancellor, and provost at the University of California–Riverside. Daniel Anderson is a professor at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

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Media and Attention, Cognition, and School Achievement
Marie Evans Schmidt and Elizabeth A. Vandewater
Marie Evans Schmidt is a research associate at the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston. Elizabeth A. Vandewater is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas–Austin.

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Media and Children's Aggression, Fear, and Altruism
Barbara J. Wilson
Barbara J. Wilson is the Paul C. Friedland Professorial Scholar and head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is grateful to Kristin Drogos for her research assistance and to Craig Anderson and other participants at the Future of Children conference for their insightful comments.

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Online Communication and Adolescent Relationships
Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia Greenfield
Kaveri Subrahmanyam is a professor of psychology at California State University–Los Angeles, and associate director of the Children's Digital Media Center, UCLA/CSULA. Patricia Greenfield is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California–Los Angeles and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, UCLA/CSULA.

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Media and Risky Behaviors
Soledad Liliana Escobar-Chaves and Craig A. Anderson
Soledad Liliana Escobar-Chaves is assistant professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Craig A. Anderson is director of the Center for the Study of Violence and distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University.

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Social Marketing Campaigns and Children's Media Use
W. Douglas Evans
W. Douglas Evans is vice president for public health and environment at RTI International.

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Children as Consumers: Advertising and Marketing
Sandra L. Calvert
Sandra L. Calvert is a professor and the chair of the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. She is also the director of the Children's Digital Media Center.

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Children's Media Policy
Amy B. Jordan
Amy B. Jordan is director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. She thanks Jordan Grossman and Katlin Esposito for research assistance, Angela Campbell for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript, and the participants at the Future of Children conference for their input and ideas.

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