Kathryn Montgomery
Biographic Data
| ID | 4012791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Montgomery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Montgomery |
| SIGNATURE | MONTGOMERY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Health Wearables: Ensuring Fairness, Preventing Discrimination, and Promoting Equity in an Emerging Internet-of-Things Environment
Wearable fitness devices have the potential to address some of the most challenging public health problems in the United States. But they also raise serious privacy concerns. The data they collect can be combined with personal information from other sources, raising the specter of discriminatory profiling, manipulative marketing, and data breaches. Yet, these devices fall between the cracks of a weak health privacy and a consumer protection syste…
Big Data and the transformation of food and beverage marketing: Undermining efforts to reduce obesity
The confluence of new ways to quickly gather, analyze, and use large volumes of information – so-called ‘Big Data’ – coupled with the widespread adoption of digital devices, has transformed marketing, including food marketing. However, the effects on health of the marriage between Big Data and digital food marketing are largely un-researched and unknown. In the midst of ongoing global concern about obesity, there is a need for public health schol…
Children's Media Culture in a Big Data World
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathryn MontgomeryKathryn Montgomery, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. Her research, writing, and testimony have helped to frame the national public policy debate on a range of children and media issues. She is the author of Target: Prime Time – Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television (Oxford University Press, 1989); and Generation Dig…
Balancing the Needs of Young People in the Digital Marketplace
Today's young people are growing up in a ubiquitous global digital media culture, where mobile devices, social networks, virtual reality, interactive games, and online video have become ingrained i
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationshi…
A Setback: In Memory of John Stone, 1936–2008
A Setback:In Memory of John Stone, 1936–2008 Kathryn Montgomery (bio) John Stone died in Atlanta, Georgia, early on Thursday, November 6, 2008. Poet and cardiologist, he was also a Mozart-lover, director of one of the first emergency medicine residencies, and for many years, Associate Dean of Admissions at Emory University Medical School. To hear him read his poems was a treat—in part because, in the southern tradition, he was a good storyteller,…
Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture; as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.Children and teens today have integrated digital culture seamlessly into their lives. For most, using the Internet, playing videogames, downloading music onto an iPod, or multitasking with a cell phone is no more complicated than setting the toaster oven …
Generation digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet
Literature, Literary Studies, and Medical Ethics: The Interdisciplinary Question
How do we know what is right, or before that, how do we recognize what is morally salient? Such matters lie deeper than can be plumbed by traditional philosophical modes of inquiry alone. Careful study of them requires also the study of literature, with the meticulous appraisal that it encourages of the intricate, tangled issues involved in apprehending the world, finding our way in it, and representing it to others. In this way, the study of lit…
Children's Media Culture in the New Millennium: Mapping the Digital Landscape
A new "children's digital media culture" is swiftly moving into place on the Internet. In this article, the author describes the technological, demographic, and market forces shaping this new digital media culture and the rich array of Web sites being created for children and teens. Many nonprofit organizations, museums, educational institutions, and government agencies are playing a significant role in developing online content for children, off…
Target: Prime Time
Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned against Maude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries, Beulah Land; and how…
Writing about television in the popular press
Gay Activists and the Networks
Journal Article Gay Activists and the Networks Get access Kathryn Montgomery Kathryn Montgomery 1Kathryn Montgomery is Assistant Professor and Director of Broadcasting in the Department of Speech Communication, Caifornia State University, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 49–57, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1981.tb00427.x …
Target: Prime Time
Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned against Maude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries, Beulah Land; and how…
Children's Media Culture in the New Millennium: Mapping the Digital Landscape
A new "children's digital media culture" is swiftly moving into place on the Internet. In this article, the author describes the technological, demographic, and market forces shaping this new digital media culture and the rich array of Web sites being created for children and teens. Many nonprofit organizations, museums, educational institutions, and government agencies are playing a significant role in developing online content for children, off…
Health Wearables: Ensuring Fairness, Preventing Discrimination, and Promoting Equity in an Emerging Internet-of-Things Environment
Wearable fitness devices have the potential to address some of the most challenging public health problems in the United States. But they also raise serious privacy concerns. The data they collect can be combined with personal information from other sources, raising the specter of discriminatory profiling, manipulative marketing, and data breaches. Yet, these devices fall between the cracks of a weak health privacy and a consumer protection syste…
Gay Activists and the Networks
Journal Article Gay Activists and the Networks Get access Kathryn Montgomery Kathryn Montgomery 1Kathryn Montgomery is Assistant Professor and Director of Broadcasting in the Department of Speech Communication, Caifornia State University, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 49–57, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1981.tb00427.x …
Writing about television in the popular press
Target: Prime Time
Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned against Maude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries, Beulah Land; and how…
Children's Media Culture in the New Millennium: Mapping the Digital Landscape
A new "children's digital media culture" is swiftly moving into place on the Internet. In this article, the author describes the technological, demographic, and market forces shaping this new digital media culture and the rich array of Web sites being created for children and teens. Many nonprofit organizations, museums, educational institutions, and government agencies are playing a significant role in developing online content for children, off…
Literature, Literary Studies, and Medical Ethics: The Interdisciplinary Question
How do we know what is right, or before that, how do we recognize what is morally salient? Such matters lie deeper than can be plumbed by traditional philosophical modes of inquiry alone. Careful study of them requires also the study of literature, with the meticulous appraisal that it encourages of the intricate, tangled issues involved in apprehending the world, finding our way in it, and representing it to others. In this way, the study of lit…
Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture; as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.Children and teens today have integrated digital culture seamlessly into their lives. For most, using the Internet, playing videogames, downloading music onto an iPod, or multitasking with a cell phone is no more complicated than setting the toaster oven …
Generation digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet
A Setback: In Memory of John Stone, 1936–2008
A Setback:In Memory of John Stone, 1936–2008 Kathryn Montgomery (bio) John Stone died in Atlanta, Georgia, early on Thursday, November 6, 2008. Poet and cardiologist, he was also a Mozart-lover, director of one of the first emergency medicine residencies, and for many years, Associate Dean of Admissions at Emory University Medical School. To hear him read his poems was a treat—in part because, in the southern tradition, he was a good storyteller,…
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationshi…
Balancing the Needs of Young People in the Digital Marketplace
Today's young people are growing up in a ubiquitous global digital media culture, where mobile devices, social networks, virtual reality, interactive games, and online video have become ingrained i
Children's Media Culture in a Big Data World
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathryn MontgomeryKathryn Montgomery, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. Her research, writing, and testimony have helped to frame the national public policy debate on a range of children and media issues. She is the author of Target: Prime Time – Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television (Oxford University Press, 1989); and Generation Dig…
Big Data and the transformation of food and beverage marketing: Undermining efforts to reduce obesity
The confluence of new ways to quickly gather, analyze, and use large volumes of information – so-called ‘Big Data’ – coupled with the widespread adoption of digital devices, has transformed marketing, including food marketing. However, the effects on health of the marriage between Big Data and digital food marketing are largely un-researched and unknown. In the midst of ongoing global concern about obesity, there is a need for public health schol…
Health Wearables: Ensuring Fairness, Preventing Discrimination, and Promoting Equity in an Emerging Internet-of-Things Environment
Wearable fitness devices have the potential to address some of the most challenging public health problems in the United States. But they also raise serious privacy concerns. The data they collect can be combined with personal information from other sources, raising the specter of discriminatory profiling, manipulative marketing, and data breaches. Yet, these devices fall between the cracks of a weak health privacy and a consumer protection syste…
Business (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Advertising (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · World Wide Web (7 works) · Digital media (6 works) · Internet privacy (6 works) · Law (6 works)