Jessica Taylor Piotrowski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 124331 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jessica Taylor Piotrowski |
| NOMBRES | Jessica Taylor |
| APELLIDO | Piotrowski |
| FIRMA | PIOTROWSKI J T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2756-5197 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Google family home. Smart speaker use in Dutch families and the impact of parents’ individual and contextual characteristics
Smart speakers are a growing phenomenon in families with young children. Yet, early scholarship suggests that the reality of welcoming a smart speaker in the family and ongoingly using it is rather complex – not only because of the non-uniformity of families who own a device, but also because smart speaker use in the family space is, in itself, multi-dimensional. To that end, this study looks beyond initial device ownership and acknowledges a tri…
What does the news say about Siri, Alexa, and co.? A topic model network analysis of Dutch news messages about virtual assistants between 2011 and 2022
News media can shape public perceptions of technology and meaningfully inform research on technology adoption. Yet, little is known about the news representations of a currently emerging technology: Virtual Assistants (VAs). By examining the Dutch news coverage (2011–2022; N = 2059) using the Analysis of Topic Model Networks, this study found that (1) news attention peaked in 2019 with a decline in the years thereafter (until 2022) and (2) discou…
Next-gen childhoods
I remember a time before the Journal of Children and Media. Sitting in my graduate school office, holding my first children’s “electronic” book. It was Blue’s Clues themed, and it had features that
Charge Your Brainzzz
Inadequate sleep among Dutch adolescents is a complex public health issue with detrimental effects on physical and mental well-being. Previous interventions have shown limited or no lasting effects. While systems approaches help to understand and address such challenges, effective prevention efforts require theory- and evidence-based intervention design using behavior change techniques. This study outlines the systematic development of a ‘whole s…
Virtual assistants in the family home. Understanding parents’ motivations to use virtual assistants with their Child(dren)
Virtual assistants (VA) like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant are becoming household names - especially for families with young children. Scientific inquiry studying this user population and their intention to use VAs at home, however, remains scarce. By bridging the Technology Acceptance Model, Uses and Gratifications theory, and the first proposition of the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model, this study disentangles (1) differen…
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression
Humorous media entertainment frequently punctuates the everyday lives of adolescents. Theorists have suggested that this exposure may impact behavior, particularly real-life aggression. Specifically, exposure to prosocial (coping) humor in media entertainment is posited to decrease aggression, whereas the reverse has been argued for exposure to antisocial (disparaging and slapstick) humor. Despite these suppositions, little empirical evidence abo…
Haptics and hotspots
This study investigated how app design features in educational apps affect app usability (i.e. effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction during use) and subsequent learning for Dutch children aged 4–5 years old. Guided by the Capacity Model 2.0 and Cognitive Load Theory, a 2 × 2 between-subjects experiment was conducted with 128 children (Mage = 4.73, SD = .40) to investigate how tactile (i.e. haptic movement: dragging versus tapping) and visua…
Exploring the summer slide in the Netherlands
This study considers the existence of a decline of academic skills in the summer – the so-called “summer slide” – in the context of a relatively short, six-week summer holiday. It further proposes that the extent of this decline will be moderated by home-based practice, and that this practice itself is a function of student and context-level factors. To investigate these issues, a pre-post (summer) study on mental arithmetic was conducted in the …
My pandemic pedagogy playbook
Teaching is deeply personal. Just as research is part of my identity, so is teaching. I feel humbled, and privileged, to have the opportunity to teach in the University classroom. I take the role seriously. Like so many of my colleagues, I try to bring concepts to life in my classroom. I rely on the principles of varied repetition, accessibility, and interactivity – alongside a healthy dose of humor – to create a meaningful classroom experience. …
More than Just a Laughing Matter
Despite the crucial role of humor in t(w)eens’ media entertainment, we lack a theoretically informed approach to investigate the prevalence and co-occurrence of humor types in such entertainment. Therefore, this study tested a coding framework of humor in t(w)eens’ media entertainment by content-analyzing 107 television series (5,633 scenes) listed by 10- to 14-year-olds as their favorite. Results confirmed ten humor types (aggressive, slapstick,…
Mobile data donations
With digital communication increasingly shifting to mobile devices, communication research needs to explore ways to retrieve, process, and analyze digital trace data on people’s most personal devices. This study presents a new methodological approach, mobile data donations, in which smartphone usage data is collected unobtrusively with the help of mobile log data. The iOS Screen Time function is used as a test case for gathering log data with the…
Child’s Play? Assessing the Bidirectional Longitudinal Relationship between Gaming and Intelligence in Early Childhood
This study investigated the longitudinal relationship between children's digital game use and fluid and crystallized intelligence. Specifically, this study examined whether digital games affect children's fluid and crystallized intelligence (an effects perspective), whether children with higher levels of fluid or crystallized intelligence are more attracted to digital games (a selection perspective), or whether evidence supports a reciprocal rela…
Developmental Trajectories of Parental Mediation Across Early and Middle Childhood
Despite a large body of literature on the opportunities of parental mediation to enhance positive and offset negative media effects, a long-term view as to the development of such mediation across childhood is lacking. The current study aimed to address this gap by presenting a developmental approach to parental mediation. Using an accelerated longitudinal design with four-wave panel data of 729 children, we investigated developmental trajectorie…
App features that fulfill parents’ needs in apps for children
When parents select apps for young children (3-7), they have particular needs. However, it is unclear how these needs might be fulfilled. Uses and gratifications theory predicts that specific features of apps can fulfill needs, but empirical evidence regarding the types of features that fulfill these needs is nonexistent. To address this gap, a multimethodological design was used. Qualitative interviews ( n = 20) revealed 23 features in children'…
Digital Games
Digital games were once considered the domain of a small, clearly defined demographic of young men. Today, however, they are a mainstream pastime for young and old, male and female. Why do we play digital games? What makes them deeply attractive and, for some, seriously addictive? How have games managed to occupy such a significant share of our leisure time? Do games affect us, and if so, how? Do they, as some suggest, positively influence spatia…
Media and Sex
This chapter discusses the research into the effects of sex and porn on adolescents' sexual beliefs, sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior. More than any other media format, the Internet has brought sexual media content to the masses in an affordable, accessible, and anonymous manner. It is no wonder that many teens, who are in the middle of developing their sexual identities, look for sex online. And it is no wonder that there is concern about t…
Media and Parenting
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of studies ask whether and how media affect children and teens. These studies show that media use can have a positive or negative influence on how children and teens think and behave. But media use does not occur in a vacuum. Many forces can influence media effects on children and teens, including their developmental level, dispositions, and environment. This chapter homes in on the environment by focusing on the power…
Then and Now
In the past, children were not considered children in the sense they are today, and if they could read, they read books for adults. This changed gradually after the publication of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential book on child rearing, Émile, ou De l'éducation , in 1762. As society's ideas about childhood and parenting began to shift, so did our ideas about which media are appropriate for children. This chapter describes how society's ideas ab…
Youth and Media
This chapter begins with a brief review of the changes in the media landscape, including the development of new media, the repurposing of traditional media, and traditional TV advertising's loss of its dominant position. It then discusses the increased academic interest in youth and media. It details the evolution of interdisciplinary research on youth and media in the last few decades. It identifies social trends have contributed to the dramatic…
Adolescents
The spectacular changes in the human body and brain during the period of adolescence have a huge influence on adolescents' behavior and their interest in media. This chapter considers these developmental processes in order to understand how best to appeal to younger and older adolescents. What, for example, interests young teens (ages 12–15) and how does this differ (or not) from what interests their older teenage peers (16–19)? What specific dev…
Advertising and Commercialism
This chapter discusses why youth are commercially interesting and why marketing seems to be targeting children at ever-younger ages. In particular, it shows how children represent three markets—a primary market, a market of influencers, and a future market—and discusses the implications of being a threefold market for children's socialization as consumers. How do brand awareness and brand loyalty develop in early childhood? How does children's de…
Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
This chapter discusses how media preferences evolve from birth through early childhood. The focus is on two age groups, infants and young toddlers (up to 2 years old) and older toddlers and preschoolers (2–5 years). For both age groups, it describes a number of specific developmental characteristics and predicts how they influence these young children's media preferences. At what age do infants begin to take an interest in media, and why at that …
Social Media
This chapter presents the latest scientific research on the role of social media in teens' lives. Never before have the youth had so many opportunities to bring their self-presentation to perfection. They can, for example, endlessly edit their digital profiles and selfies before they post them on the Web or send them to friends. Does this ability make them more self-aware? Or does it turn them into narcissists? Does the use of social media lead t…
Children
This chapter highlights how children 5–12 years of age perceive the world—connecting this development with their media preferences. Since five-year-olds and nine-year-olds look at the world very differently, this age period is divided into two groups: young elementary schoolchildren (5–7 years old) and preadolescents (8–12). For both groups, the chapter discusses the most significant developmental changes and connects these changes with media pre…
Media And Education
This chapter focuses on the positive effects of educational media—media designed to support youth's development. Today, there are more platforms for educational media content than ever before. And while researchers have long identified the effectiveness of educational television, the potential for other educational platforms is still being understood. The chapter begins with a brief account of the history of educational media, along with statisti…
Developing and Validating the Perceived Parental Media Mediation Scale
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Plugged In
This book is an illuminating study of the complex relationship between children and media in the digital age. Now, as never before, young people are surrounded by media, thanks to the sophistication and portability of the technology that puts it literally in the palms of their hands. Drawing on data and empirical research that cross many fields and continents, this book examines the role of media in the lives of children from birth through adoles…
Mobile data donations
With digital communication increasingly shifting to mobile devices, communication research needs to explore ways to retrieve, process, and analyze digital trace data on people’s most personal devices. This study presents a new methodological approach, mobile data donations, in which smartphone usage data is collected unobtrusively with the help of mobile log data. The iOS Screen Time function is used as a test case for gathering log data with the…
Developmental Trajectories of Parental Mediation Across Early and Middle Childhood
Despite a large body of literature on the opportunities of parental mediation to enhance positive and offset negative media effects, a long-term view as to the development of such mediation across childhood is lacking. The current study aimed to address this gap by presenting a developmental approach to parental mediation. Using an accelerated longitudinal design with four-wave panel data of 729 children, we investigated developmental trajectorie…
Double Dose
We investigated how exposure to media violence and family conflict affects adolescents’ subsequent aggressive behavior. We expected a double dose effect, meaning that high media violence exposure would lead to higher levels of aggression for adolescents in high conflict families compared to low conflict families. A total of 499 adolescents (aged 10 to 14, 48% girls) participated in a two-wave longitudinal survey (4-month interval). Survey questio…
Visual Attention to Antismoking PSAs
This study examines how addicted smokers attend visually to smoking-related public service announcements (PSAs) in adults smokers. Smokers' onscreen visual fixation is an indicator of cognitive resources allocated to visual attention. Characteristic of individuals with addictive tendencies, smokers are expected to be appetitively activated by images of their addiction-specifically smoking cues. At the same time, these cues are embedded in message…
Finding Orchids in a Field of Dandelions
Most youth and media researchers do not believe that media affect all youth in the same manner or to the same degree. While most media effects theories reflect this belief, empirical efforts often do not. Rather than conceptualizing individual differences as noise or nuisance variables, we argue that the future of media effects research lies within understanding these differences. To that end, the aim of this article is to help youth and media re…
Developing Media Interventions to Reduce Household Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption
In 2010, the city of Philadelphia launched a media campaign to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in homes with children as a strategy to combat obesity. Using the integrative model (IM) of behavioral change and prediction, a theory-based precampaign survey of Philadelphia parents was conducted to determine the most effective message content. Results indicated that intention to eliminate SSB consumption is attitudinally dr…
Identifying Family Television Practices to Reduce Children’s Television Time
The family system plays an important role in shaping children’s television use. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that parents limit screen time, given the risks associated with children’s heavy television viewing. Researchers have highlighted family television practices that may be effective for reducing children’s viewing, but more work is needed to identify which are most appropriate to communicate to families. Using cross-sec…
Visual Attention to Antismoking PSAs
This study examines how addicted smokers attend visually to smoking-related public service announcements (PSAs) in adults smokers. Smokers' onscreen visual fixation is an indicator of cognitive resources allocated to visual attention. Characteristic of individuals with addictive tendencies, smokers are expected to be appetitively activated by images of their addiction-specifically smoking cues. At the same time, these cues are embedded in message…
Developing Media Interventions to Reduce Household Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption
In 2010, the city of Philadelphia launched a media campaign to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in homes with children as a strategy to combat obesity. Using the integrative model (IM) of behavioral change and prediction, a theory-based precampaign survey of Philadelphia parents was conducted to determine the most effective message content. Results indicated that intention to eliminate SSB consumption is attitudinally dr…
Extending the Lessons of Educational Television with Young American Children
As the availability of children's educational television has increased, initiatives to expand the educational impact of programs have emerged. One such initiative is experiential mediation, a form of mediation in which the viewer physically engages with materials designed to extend the program's educational content. Limited research on the effectiveness of experiential mediation exists. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 138 American children …
Double Dose
We investigated how exposure to media violence and family conflict affects adolescents’ subsequent aggressive behavior. We expected a double dose effect, meaning that high media violence exposure would lead to higher levels of aggression for adolescents in high conflict families compared to low conflict families. A total of 499 adolescents (aged 10 to 14, 48% girls) participated in a two-wave longitudinal survey (4-month interval). Survey questio…
Developing and Validating the Perceived Parental Media Mediation Scale
n Contains fulltext :\n 121605.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The Relationship between Narrative Processing Demands and Young American Children's Comprehension of Educational Television
Fisch's capacity model provides a theoretical explanation for how children comprehend educational content within an educational television program. The model focuses on children's allocation of their limited cognitive resources, with attention to the resources used for comprehending the narrative versus the educational content within the show. The model predicts that, when narrative processing demands are reduced, narrative comprehension will be …
Teaching CAM
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJessica Taylor PiotrowskiJessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. She is also the director of the Center for research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CcaM) in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). Her research and teaching focuses on the educational opportunities of media for young chi…
Media and Child Development
Identifying Family Television Practices to Reduce Children’s Television Time
The family system plays an important role in shaping children’s television use. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that parents limit screen time, given the risks associated with children’s heavy television viewing. Researchers have highlighted family television practices that may be effective for reducing children’s viewing, but more work is needed to identify which are most appropriate to communicate to families. Using cross-sec…
Finding Orchids in a Field of Dandelions
Most youth and media researchers do not believe that media affect all youth in the same manner or to the same degree. While most media effects theories reflect this belief, empirical efforts often do not. Rather than conceptualizing individual differences as noise or nuisance variables, we argue that the future of media effects research lies within understanding these differences. To that end, the aim of this article is to help youth and media re…
Psychology, Developmental
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of the life span of human beings. Communication scientists interested in the study of youth and media often use developmental psychology to help guide their understanding of how youth select, use, and experience media content. Grounded in developmental psychology, the moderate‐discrepancy hypothesis has been used to understand developmental differences in the media use of children and adolescents. …
Digital Games
Digital games were once considered the domain of a small, clearly defined demographic of young men. Today, however, they are a mainstream pastime for young and old, male and female. Why do we play digital games? What makes them deeply attractive and, for some, seriously addictive? How have games managed to occupy such a significant share of our leisure time? Do games affect us, and if so, how? Do they, as some suggest, positively influence spatia…
Media and Sex
This chapter discusses the research into the effects of sex and porn on adolescents' sexual beliefs, sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior. More than any other media format, the Internet has brought sexual media content to the masses in an affordable, accessible, and anonymous manner. It is no wonder that many teens, who are in the middle of developing their sexual identities, look for sex online. And it is no wonder that there is concern about t…
Media and Parenting
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of studies ask whether and how media affect children and teens. These studies show that media use can have a positive or negative influence on how children and teens think and behave. But media use does not occur in a vacuum. Many forces can influence media effects on children and teens, including their developmental level, dispositions, and environment. This chapter homes in on the environment by focusing on the power…
Then and Now
In the past, children were not considered children in the sense they are today, and if they could read, they read books for adults. This changed gradually after the publication of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential book on child rearing, Émile, ou De l'éducation , in 1762. As society's ideas about childhood and parenting began to shift, so did our ideas about which media are appropriate for children. This chapter describes how society's ideas ab…
Youth and Media
This chapter begins with a brief review of the changes in the media landscape, including the development of new media, the repurposing of traditional media, and traditional TV advertising's loss of its dominant position. It then discusses the increased academic interest in youth and media. It details the evolution of interdisciplinary research on youth and media in the last few decades. It identifies social trends have contributed to the dramatic…
Adolescents
The spectacular changes in the human body and brain during the period of adolescence have a huge influence on adolescents' behavior and their interest in media. This chapter considers these developmental processes in order to understand how best to appeal to younger and older adolescents. What, for example, interests young teens (ages 12–15) and how does this differ (or not) from what interests their older teenage peers (16–19)? What specific dev…
Advertising and Commercialism
This chapter discusses why youth are commercially interesting and why marketing seems to be targeting children at ever-younger ages. In particular, it shows how children represent three markets—a primary market, a market of influencers, and a future market—and discusses the implications of being a threefold market for children's socialization as consumers. How do brand awareness and brand loyalty develop in early childhood? How does children's de…
Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
This chapter discusses how media preferences evolve from birth through early childhood. The focus is on two age groups, infants and young toddlers (up to 2 years old) and older toddlers and preschoolers (2–5 years). For both age groups, it describes a number of specific developmental characteristics and predicts how they influence these young children's media preferences. At what age do infants begin to take an interest in media, and why at that …
Social Media
This chapter presents the latest scientific research on the role of social media in teens' lives. Never before have the youth had so many opportunities to bring their self-presentation to perfection. They can, for example, endlessly edit their digital profiles and selfies before they post them on the Web or send them to friends. Does this ability make them more self-aware? Or does it turn them into narcissists? Does the use of social media lead t…
Children
This chapter highlights how children 5–12 years of age perceive the world—connecting this development with their media preferences. Since five-year-olds and nine-year-olds look at the world very differently, this age period is divided into two groups: young elementary schoolchildren (5–7 years old) and preadolescents (8–12). For both groups, the chapter discusses the most significant developmental changes and connects these changes with media pre…
Media And Education
This chapter focuses on the positive effects of educational media—media designed to support youth's development. Today, there are more platforms for educational media content than ever before. And while researchers have long identified the effectiveness of educational television, the potential for other educational platforms is still being understood. The chapter begins with a brief account of the history of educational media, along with statisti…
Media And Violence
Media violence and its effects on aggression is one of the most heavily investigated topics in the field of communication. Every time a child or teenager committed an act of violence in recent years, the debate about the effects of media violence on aggression flared up again. Can children and teens indeed become aggressive, or even criminal, from seeing violence on television, in movies, or in games? And if so, are some children and teens partic…
Media and Emotions
This chapter takes a look at how entertainment media can evoke powerful emotions in youth (as well as adults). How is it that entertainment media can make children and teens fearful, agitated, and even sad—all while they know they are seeing fictional content? And does the experience of emotion differ across childhood, or is it, perhaps, more universal? To answer these and other questions, the chapter reviews key theories on emotion and discusses…
The End
This chapter begins with a discussion of the dynamics of our network society. The twenty-first century is, so far, the age of the network society, one that is supported by social media networks which have removed the spatial barriers that traditionally limited our communication, and have changed the world into a global village. The chapter then turns to the promises and perils of youth and media research today. It claims that the transition to a …
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