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Children’s Media Use and Sleep Problems: Issues and Unanswered Questions
Research shows that most children and adolescents do not get enough high-quality sleep, and that their sleep times appear to have declined over the last two decades. Coinciding with this trend has been the rise in popularity of new media forms including the Internet, video games, cell phones and DVDs. Because of the immediacy and interactivity of these new technologies, young people are using media at times and in ways that might interfere with sleep quantity and quality.
This research brief examines different aspects of how media use may impact sleep. It reviews and summarizes the limited body of research on this topic, including studies on whether media use directly displaces sleep, and how media content can have either an exciting or calming effect on children. The brief also highlights key unanswered questions that emerge from the prior studies on children’s media use and sleep.
Issue Brief (.pdf)
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7674.cfm

Agenda Setting Theory
http://www.mediatenor.com/smi_AS_approach.php

http://cms.mit.edu/research/theses.php

http://www.bookrags.com/researchtopics/mass-media/sub29.html

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/mbpapers.html

The Role of Media in Reporting Medical Research
http://bipolar.about.com/od/researchstudies/a/role_of_media. htm

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Research in Media Effects - Website

www.rogerwimmer.com/mmr/MMR8CH18.doc

Research / Working Papers
CGCS's research and publications activities seek to contribute to and help shape the emerging field of global communication studies.
Our research efforts emerge organically from the interests of Annenberg students and faculty and the broader CGCS network. Reflecting the diversity of this area of study and the CGCS approach, recent research and publications have addressed topics such as comparative media regulation; China and the Olympics; media, democracy and governance; media and civil society; media and conflict; and the intersection of media policy and practice.
Just released: Workshop Report: Media, Elections and Political Violence in Eastern Africa
This report, based on discussions at a December 2008 workshop organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, explores the election experiences of Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Somaliland, Tanzania and Sudan in a comparative framework.
The report analyzes why election violence occurred after some elections, what the role of the media was in either exacerbating or resolving disputes, and what this suggests about the broader political project and the state of the media in the countries under examination.
Reports and Books related to the work of CGCS
• The Role of the Media in the Upcoming Somaliland Elections: Lessons from Kenya (September 2009)
• An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - English version
• An Introduction to News Media Law and Policy in Jordan (April 2009) - Arabic version
• Public Opinion Research in a Conflict Zone: Grassroots Diplomacy in Darfur (Fall 2008)
• Researching Attitudes towards Peace and Conflict and Darfur:An analysis of a research initiative from February 2007 - October 2008 (Fall 2008)
• "Public Television and Pluralistic Ideals," (with Ellen Goodman), in The Price of Plurality: Choice, Diversity and Broadcast Institutions in the Digital Age (2008)
• Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (Spring 2008)
• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (Spring 2008)
• The Speculative Influence of Academic Research on the Making of Communications Policy: Reflections, Recollections and Informal Perspectives(February 2008)
• Comparative Analysis of International Co- And Self-Regulation in Communications Markets (2007)
• 2007/8 Yearbook of Global Civil Society: Communicative Power and Democracy(2007)
• Towards an Understanding of Media Policy in Iraq: A Foreword and Two Reports (May 2007)
• Republic of Iraq Communications and Media Commission: Policy Recommendations Concerning Broadcasting in Iraq (December 2006)
• Media Matters: Perspectives on Advancing Governance & Development from the Global Forum for Media Development (2006)
• Why Templates for Media Development do not work in Crisis States: Defining and understanding media development strategies in post-war and crisis states (2005)
• The Federal Institute for Access to information in Mexico and a Culture of Transparency
• Minority-Language Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE (February 2006)
• The Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Media: Contribution to Transparent and Accountable Governance (January 2002)
• Public Service Broadcasting in Transition: A Documentary Reader (November 2001)
• Mapping Media Assistance (February 2001)
• Restructuring the Media in Post-Conflict Societies: Four Perspectives (May 2000)
You can also visit Professor Price's Publications to get a sense of current work in development.
Further information on research resources.
Two Occasional Paper Series
Call for Papers: Culture and Politics in African Media Studies
The goal of this occasional paper series is to encourage scholarship, discussion and comparative research on contemporary issues within African media studies. We are especially interested in exploring how particular cultural and political factors have shaped the development of African media systems and vice versa. Possible topics include the role of media in the nation and state-building process, the consolidation of political power, reconciliation (or its failure) and conflict/post-conflict situations. ICT, radio, television, press, as well as other forms of media such as poetry, theater and sermons, will be considered. We welcome contributions based on original research and those that look critically at prevailing assumptions within this field. This project is a joint effort of the Center for Global Communication Studies (Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania), the African Studies Center < hyperlink: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/ > (University of Pennsylvania) and the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research.
Please visit the website for more information and submission guidelines.
Call for Papers: Bridging the Gap Between Communications Research And Policy
The worlds of academia and policymaking are often portrayed as disconnected, unrelated spheres. In practice, however, collaboration between academics and policymakers is essential to developing sound policies and inspiring research that serves the public interest. In an ongoing effort to highlight the linkages between the academy and the policy world, CGCS, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council, is soliciting papers that address efforts to connect research and communications policy. A first group of papers has been published as a "Special Section on Academic Research and Policy" with the online International Journal of Communication. Subsequent contributions will be posted on the SSRC's Media Research Hub.
We are seeking short (approx. 2,000 word) informal contributions that explore this question in a variety of international contexts. Please contact Libby Morgan (lmorgan@asc.upenn.edu) if you are interested in contributing.
CGCS Books in Development
Susan Abbott and Monroe Price are in the initial stages of planning for a book with the suggested title of "Evaluating the Evaluators: Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development." This book attempts to bring together in one volume a variety of viewpoints and perspectives about evaluating media assistance, offering critical reflection on theories and tools of measurements that are used by the academic, donor, and civil society communities. It will offer a timely debate from both the academic and practitioner communities and draw upon a variety of theoretical and geographic perspectives. The book will deal with traditional media such as TV, radio, and broadcast mediums, and also take into consideration new media technologies and how they impact upon media development.
Faculty Books
The following is a selection of books with an international dimension by current Annenberg faculty:
• Culture Policy in Israel (Prof. Elihu Katz),
• Development Communication: Information, Agriculture and Nutrition in the Third World (Prof. Robert Hornik)
• Educational Reform with Television: The El Salvador Experience (co-authored byProf. Robert Hornik)
• The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas (co-authored by Prof. Elihu Katz)
• Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights, and the Management of Media Space(co-edited by Prof. Monroe Price)
• Hybridity or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (Prof. Marwan Kraidy)
• Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (co-edited by Prof. Marwan Kraidy)
• Leisure, Culture and Communication in Israel (Prof. Elihu Katz)
• Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power (Prof. Monroe Price)
• Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye (Prof. Barbie Zelizer)
• When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (Prof. Carolyn Marvin)
Graduate Student Work
CGCS encourages graduate research on a number of different levels, whether it be through coursework, support of existing research interest, or facilitating travel to conferences and workshops.
• Ken Farrall has started a blog, US-China Surveillance, which looks at issues in surveillance and human rights from a global perspective. This is part of his continuing work on China in collaboration with CGCS.
• Read Lee Humphrey's co-authored paper on "Modernity and the Mobile Phone: Exploring Tensions about Dating and Sex in Indonesia," M/C Journal, 10(1). (Mar. 2007) Her research in Indonesia was facilitated by CGCS.
• Read Graduate Student Briar Smith's class paper "2008 Summer Games: Beijing's Image Campaign," this came out of classwork.
• Read Graduate Student Deb Wainwright's class paper, "The Muppet for Loyalties: The power and flow of international Sesame Street co-productions," this came out of classwork.
• Read Graduate Student Michael Serazio's article, "Geopolitical Proselytizing in the Marketplace for Loyalties: Rethinking the Global Gospel of American Christian Broadcasting" published in the Journal of Media and Religion.
MEDIA STUDIES
Journal Articles for Media Studies
http://www.hampshire.edu/library/2226.htm
http://www.hampshire.edu/library/1840.htm

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