Ellen Wartella
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 253791 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ellen Wartella |
| PRENOMES | Ellen |
| SOBRENOME | Wartella |
| ASSINATURA | WARTELLA E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6687-5422 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Community-powered change in the Omaha metropolitan area
Mental health stigma is associated with a range of negative health outcomes, and there is a need for more information on how to apply evidence-based digital strategies to various geographic areas. This case study reviews the creation and implementation of a community-based participatory digital media campaign that uses a collective impact framework to address mental health stigma reduction in the Omaha metropolitan area. The campaign was delivere…
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework
The rapid proliferation and maturation of social media platforms have led to numerous challenges in understanding the correlates of social media use among users. To advance this research, the present article proposes a new way to think about social media with the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework (PSMEF). This perspective defines social media as a user-centric digital environment made up of a central set of individual, yet interrelated di…
The role of different characters on story-consistent attitudes and self-reported mental health-related behavior change among viewers of 13 Reasons Why
Children’s Spatial Play With a Block Building Touchscreen Application
Spatial play contributes to children’s early development of spatial skills, which are foundational for STEM achievement. A growing genre of spatial play for young children is digital block play. We asked how 3- to 6-year-old children ( N = 117) engaged in digital block play and whether children’s age, gender, and spatial skills were correlated with this play. Children completed a spatial skills assessment and played a popular digital block play a…
Preschool teachers’ perspectives on (haptic) technology in the classroom
One particularly exciting platform with the potential to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in early childhood classrooms is the tablet. However, one challenge in using these devices for STEM learning is that traditional tablets lack important sensory information. The emerging technology of haptic (or tactile) feedback touch-screen displays might reduce this barrier. In order to better understand pre-school teachers’ attitude…
Young children's social and independent behavior during play with a coding app
Mental Health Stigma Reduction in the Midwestern United States
Parent viewership of 13 reasons why and parental perceived knowledge about adolescent life
There has been a recent increase in television programming that aims to provide realistic portrayals of adolescent life in an effort to both entertain and educate adolescent viewers. Research on this entertainment-education programming has examined the effects on adolescent viewers; however, it has not considered the relationship between parent viewing of such programming and their perceived knowledge about adolescent life. Further, it is possibl…
Interventions
This chapter reviews the present status of communication studies in the United States, including what is currently being characterized as a “ferment in the field.” Feminist theory and research offer communication studies: a more sophisticated and pointed analysis of power relations, a social theory which attempts to account for the social and cultural construction of sexual difference, a commitment to lived experience which links communication to…
Reasons Why, Perceived Norms, and Reports of Mental Health-Related Behavior Change among Adolescent and Young Adult Viewers in Four Global Regions
Media programing addressing controversial topics among youth has grown; however, research has yet to consider the correlates of viewing on a global scale. Using the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), this study examined perceived norms about mental illness among a sample of 3,520 adolescent and young adult viewers and nonviewers of 13 Reasons Why in Australia/New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Brazil. We assessed the…
The power of parent attitudes
Mobile technology devices continue to develop and change, creating increased opportunity for use by children. However, parents remain wary of screen time and question the benefits of using these devices for teaching specific content (e.g., science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM). Parent attitudes can play a very powerful role in children's media use and these attitudes may be even more impactful with emerging or novel technologies. As su…
Who’s modeling STEM for kids? A character analysis of children’s STEM-focused television in the US
Character portrayals are important to consider when investigating the effects of educational television on young viewers. When it comes to academic interests and career aspirations, children take cues from the media representations around them. This study is a content analysis of STEM-focused children’s television shows, with attention to gender and race representation amongst the characters in those programs. Across 90 episodes of programs that …
Temas de contenido y voces influyentes dentro de la oposición a las vacunas en Twitter, 2019
Objetivo. Informar sobre la oposición a las vacunas y la información errónea fomentadas en Twitter, destacando las cuentas de Twitter que dirigen estas conversaciones. Métodos. Utilizamos el aprendizaje automático supervisado para codificar todos los mensajes publicados en Twitter. En primer lugar, identificamos manualmente los códigos y los temas mediante un enfoque teórico fundamentado y, a continuación, los aplicamos a todo el conjunto de dato…
Behind the Reasons
With increasing media choice, particularly through the rise of streaming services, it has become more important for empirical research to examine how youth decide which programs to view, particularly when the content focuses on difficult health topics such as suicide. The present study investigated why adolescents and young adults chose to view or not view season 1 of 13 Reasons Why and how individual-level variables related to adolescents’ and y…
The Datafication of Childhood
In the age of continuous data collection and algorithmic predictions, children’s privacy seems threatened by the variety of surveillance and data practices in which parents, institutions, corporations and children themselves engage. The vast amount of data routinely collected about children as they grow up include data shared online, whether by children themselves (social media updates, web searches and browsing, data traces of their internet and…
“The Kids Hate It, but We Love It!”
The contribution aims to present a critical analysis of Circle—a screen time management and parental control device—through the lens of parental mediation, children’s surveillance, and children’s rights to online participation. Circle promises to sell parents peace of mind by allowing them to monitor their children’s online activities. In order to investigate how parents themselves understand Circle, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative co…
Content Themes and Influential Voices Within Vaccine Opposition on Twitter, 2019
Objectives. To report on vaccine opposition and misinformation promoted on Twitter, highlighting Twitter accounts that drive conversation. Methods. We used supervised machine learning to code all Twitter posts. We first identified codes and themes manually by using a grounded theoretical approach and then applied them to the full data set algorithmically. We identified the top 50 authors month-over-month to determine influential sources of inform…
The Audience and Its Landscape
Controversy sells, but what about science? Press coverage of 13 Reasons Why
For decades, popular press reports have called the role of media in the lives of young people into question. Of course, some of these news stories and other popular press pieces are associated with...
Using short message (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) to encourage positive parent–child engagement around literacy and language development
Research on language development suggests that children from low-income families hear nearly 30 million words less than their higher income counterparts (Hart & Risley, 1999). This paper explores parent perceptions and attitudes toward two mobile interventions (Text4baby and Univision Contigo) designed to support parents’ engagement with their young children as a way of reducing the language gap and improving child outcomes. We conducted eight fo…
Screen Media Exposure and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Obesity is one of the best-documented outcomes of screen media exposure. Many observational studies find relationships between screen media exposure and increased risks of obesity. Randomized controlled trials of reducing screen time in community settings have reduced weight gain in children, demonstrating a cause and effect relationship. Current evidence suggests that screen media exposure leads to obesity in children and adolescents through inc…
The ABCs of Media and Children
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Please check back later for the full article. Children are and have been active media users for decades. Historically, the focus on children and media issues have centered on the concerns and consequences of media use, generally around violence. In the last 40 years, we have seen a shift to study children and media from a more holistic approa…
Teens, Health and Technology
In the age of digital technology, as teens seem to be constantly connected online, via social media, and through mobile applications, it is no surprise that they increasingly turn to digital media to answer their health questions. This study is the first of its kind to survey a large, nationally-representative sample of teens to investigate how they use the newest digital technologies, including mobile apps, social networking sites, electronic ga…
What kind of adults will our children become? The impact of growing up in a media-saturated world
This article urges children and media scholars to consider the broader consequences of the ubiquitous media environment in which children live today. We consider, within a broader sociocultural context, the ways in which media and interactive technology serve as more knowledgeable others, scaffolding children's learning and development. Given this context, it is imperative for researchers to consider the consequences of living in the digital age …
Content analysis across new media platforms
Content analyses sway policy by describing the prevalence of mass media messages and implying effects. However, content-based research focusing ondynamic new media products such as websites, mobile applications, and video games presents methodological challenges. Our team recently conducted a large-scale content analysis exploring food marketing to children across media platforms, in which we captured and analyzed a variety of media-rich content.…
Newspapers and citizenship
American newspaper executives and conservative critics complain that young adults who don't read newspapers and lack a knowledge of basic facts may be unprepared to become informed citizens. Studies also correlate newspaper reading with political interest. Young readers, who begin with comics and turn to newspapers for entertainment, do not find political news meaningful. This study explored what the newspaper means to young adults. Some 164 coll…
The Audience and Its Landscape
Introduction James Hay, Lawrence Grossberg, and Ellen Wartella. Audience Studies And The Convergence Of Research Traditions * Viewers Work Elihu Katz. * Combinations, Comparisons, and Confrontations: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Audience Research Karl Erik Rosengren. * Audience Research: Antinomies, Intersection, and the Prospect of Comprehensive Theory David L. Swanson. * After Convergence: Constituents of a Social Semiotics of Mass Media Re…
Children and Computers
Computer technology has ushered in a new era of mass media, bringing with it great promise and great concerns about the effect on children's development and well-being. Although we tend to see these issues as being new, similar promises and concerns have accompanied each new wave of media technology throughout the past century: films in the early 1900s, radio in the 1920s, and television in the 1940s. With the introduction of each of these techno…
No-You Can't Watch That
This study addresses the relations between parental rules regarding television use (for time and program, respectively) and television use among very young children (ages 0 to 6). Higher education level was related to rules of both types, whereas higher household income was related to having program rules. Parents with time rules reported their children watching less television, but parents with program rules reported their children watching more…
When the Television Is Always On
In American homes, the television is on approximately 6 hours a day on average. Yet little is known about the impact of growing up in the near constant presence of television. This study examines the prevalence and developmental impact of "heavy-television" households on very young children aged 0 to 6 drawn from a nationally representative sample (N = 756). Thirty-five percent of the children lived in a home where the television is on "always" o…
Content Themes and Influential Voices Within Vaccine Opposition on Twitter, 2019
Objectives. To report on vaccine opposition and misinformation promoted on Twitter, highlighting Twitter accounts that drive conversation. Methods. We used supervised machine learning to code all Twitter posts. We first identified codes and themes manually by using a grounded theoretical approach and then applied them to the full data set algorithmically. We identified the top 50 authors month-over-month to determine influential sources of inform…
Using short message (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) to encourage positive parent–child engagement around literacy and language development
Research on language development suggests that children from low-income families hear nearly 30 million words less than their higher income counterparts (Hart & Risley, 1999). This paper explores parent perceptions and attitudes toward two mobile interventions (Text4baby and Univision Contigo) designed to support parents’ engagement with their young children as a way of reducing the language gap and improving child outcomes. We conducted eight fo…
The Growing Commercialization of Schools
Over the past seven years there has been a tremendous influx of commercial marketing efforts in grades from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Other than anecdotal reports, little is known about the extent of these commercial efforts or about the attitudes of teachers, administrators, students, parents, and the public at large toward this increasing commercial presence. This article is intended to be the first in a series of research projects aimed a…
Behind the Reasons
With increasing media choice, particularly through the rise of streaming services, it has become more important for empirical research to examine how youth decide which programs to view, particularly when the content focuses on difficult health topics such as suicide. The present study investigated why adolescents and young adults chose to view or not view season 1 of 13 Reasons Why and how individual-level variables related to adolescents’ and y…
Content analysis across new media platforms
Content analyses sway policy by describing the prevalence of mass media messages and implying effects. However, content-based research focusing ondynamic new media products such as websites, mobile applications, and video games presents methodological challenges. Our team recently conducted a large-scale content analysis exploring food marketing to children across media platforms, in which we captured and analyzed a variety of media-rich content.…
New Members of the Family
This article describes media use among families over time and suggests a research agenda for scholars in the fields of communication and family studies. Although much is known about media and individual children, more research needs to address the impact of media on the family, especially in today's media-rich homes
Children and Media
This essay argues that there is far too little research on the effects of new types of media programming and formats on children. In fact, the gap between the research base and production and policy issues appears to be widening. The essay advocates use of the developmental research model to study media effects on children. More specifically, researchers should focus more on the neuropsychological effects of format characteristics and viewing sty…
The Evolution of Models of Mass Communication and Persuasion
The Public as Dummies
A number of recent public polls and commentaries on the media have suggested that the American public is woefully uninformed across a broad range of issues and topics, to the extent, as one such commentator argues, that citizens “are not mentally prepared to continue the society because they basically do not understand the society enough to value it.” A review of the literature does disclose vast areas of general-public ignorance, but the argumen…
The Mass Media Environment of Children
Learning to be Consumers
Daniel B. Wackman, Ellen Wartella, Scott Ward; Learning to be Consumers: The Role of the Family, Journal of Communication, Volume 27, Issue 1, 1 March 1977
The Mass Media Environment of Children
Communicating More than Content
Aletha C. Huston, John C. Wright, Ellen Wartella, Mabel L. Rice, Bruce A. Watkins, Toni Campbell, Richard Potts; Communicating More than Content: Formal Fe
Sex Stereotyping in Advertising . Alice E. Courtney , Thomas W. Whipple Forever Feminine
Historical Trends in Research on Children and the Media
Ellen Wartella, Byron Reeves; Historical Trends in Research on Children and the Media: 1900–1960, Journal of Communication, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1 June 1985
The Public as Dummies
A number of recent public polls and commentaries on the media have suggested that the American public is woefully uninformed across a broad range of issues and topics, to the extent, as one such commentator argues, that citizens “are not mentally prepared to continue the society because they basically do not understand the society enough to value it.” A review of the literature does disclose vast areas of general-public ignorance, but the argumen…
Rethinking Communication
The Evolution of Models of Mass Communication and Persuasion
Newspapers and citizenship
American newspaper executives and conservative critics complain that young adults who don't read newspapers and lack a knowledge of basic facts may be unprepared to become informed citizens. Studies also correlate newspaper reading with political interest. Young readers, who begin with comics and turn to newspapers for entertainment, do not find political news meaningful. This study explored what the newspaper means to young adults. Some 164 coll…
Media Coverage of the “Political Correctness” Debate
The Audience and Its Landscape
Introduction James Hay, Lawrence Grossberg, and Ellen Wartella. Audience Studies And The Convergence Of Research Traditions * Viewers Work Elihu Katz. * Combinations, Comparisons, and Confrontations: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Audience Research Karl Erik Rosengren. * Audience Research: Antinomies, Intersection, and the Prospect of Comprehensive Theory David L. Swanson. * After Convergence: Constituents of a Social Semiotics of Mass Media Re…
Young citizens, American TV newscasts and the collective memory
Using a life history method and comparing results with earlier research on newspapers, we examine college students’ life experiences with television news, particularly those related to its role in citizenship. Results show differences in how television news is understood and used by gender, age, ethnicity. The research suggests a fundamental reevaluation of that role is necessary
The Growing Commercialization of Schools
Over the past seven years there has been a tremendous influx of commercial marketing efforts in grades from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Other than anecdotal reports, little is known about the extent of these commercial efforts or about the attitudes of teachers, administrators, students, parents, and the public at large toward this increasing commercial presence. This article is intended to be the first in a series of research projects aimed a…
Children and Media
This essay argues that there is far too little research on the effects of new types of media programming and formats on children. In fact, the gap between the research base and production and policy issues appears to be widening. The essay advocates use of the developmental research model to study media effects on children. More specifically, researchers should focus more on the neuropsychological effects of format characteristics and viewing sty…
Children and Media
Children and Computers
Computer technology has ushered in a new era of mass media, bringing with it great promise and great concerns about the effect on children's development and well-being. Although we tend to see these issues as being new, similar promises and concerns have accompanied each new wave of media technology throughout the past century: films in the early 1900s, radio in the 1920s, and television in the 1940s. With the introduction of each of these techno…
New Members of the Family
This article describes media use among families over time and suggests a research agenda for scholars in the fields of communication and family studies. Although much is known about media and individual children, more research needs to address the impact of media on the family, especially in today's media-rich homes
The Influence of Media Violence on Youth
Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long-term contexts. The effects appear larger for milder than for more severe forms of aggression, but the effects on severe forms of violence are also substantial ( r = .13 to .32) when compared with effects of other violence risk factors or medical eff…
The Sage Handbook of Media Studies
Offers a comprehensive overview of the field of media studies at the start of the 21st century. This text examines five distinct areas including basic approaches, methods of media research perspectives on media in society, the media mosaic, & the audience
When the Television Is Always On
In American homes, the television is on approximately 6 hours a day on average. Yet little is known about the impact of growing up in the near constant presence of television. This study examines the prevalence and developmental impact of "heavy-television" households on very young children aged 0 to 6 drawn from a nationally representative sample (N = 756). Thirty-five percent of the children lived in a home where the television is on "always" o…
No-You Can't Watch That
This study addresses the relations between parental rules regarding television use (for time and program, respectively) and television use among very young children (ages 0 to 6). Higher education level was related to rules of both types, whereas higher household income was related to having program rules. Parents with time rules reported their children watching less television, but parents with program rules reported their children watching more…
Children and Television
Digital Childhood
OBJECTIVES. The objectives of this study were to describe media access and use among US children aged 0 to 6, to assess how many young children fall within the American Academy of Pediatrics media-use guidelines, to identify demographic and family factors predicting American Academy of Pediatrics media-use guideline adherence, and to assess the relation of guideline adherence to reading and playing outdoors. METHODS. Data from a representative sa…
Young Children, New Media
In May 2006 a new cable channel entered American television; BabyFirstTV became the first 24 hour cable and satellite network to offer programming aimed at viewers between 6 months and 3 years old
Studying Media Effects on Children
Psychology (44 obras) · Sociology (37 obras) · Child Development and Digital Technology (34 obras) · Social Psychology (25 obras) · Computer Science (23 obras) · Developmental psychology (22 obras) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (22 obras) · Political science (22 obras) · Social Media and Politics (18 obras) · Advertising (13 obras)