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Join us in today's discussion where we talk about the impact of media (social, online streaming platforms, etc)  portrayals on children, teenagers, and the impact that media has on social movements, self-image, and mental health. We also briefly discuss the things that the media does right!

Hosts: Farah and Sara
Script-Writer: Cheryl  

References 

Journal Articles 

• Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (2018). Teens, social media & technology 2018. Pew Research Center, 31, 2018. 
• Aubrey, J. S., & Harrison, K. (2004). The gender-role content of children's favorite television programs and its links to their gender-related perceptions. Media psychology, 6(2), 111-146. 
• Botta, R. A. (1999). Television images and adolescent girls’ body image disturbance. Journal of Communication, 49, 22–41.  
• Bridge, J. A., Greenhouse, J. B., Ruch, D., Stevens, J., Ackerman, J., Sheftall, A. H., ... & Campo, J. V. (2020). Association between the release of netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and suicide rates in the United States: An interrupted time series analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(2), 236-243. 
• Clayton, R. B., Ridgway, J. L., & Hendrickse, J. (2017). Is plus size equal? The positive impact of average and plus-sized media fashion models on women’s cognitive resource allocation, social comparisons, and body satisfaction. Communication Monographs, 84(3), 406-422. 
• Dill-Shackleford, K.E., Ramasubramanian, S., Behm-Morawitz, E., Scharrer, E., Burgess, M.C.R., & Lemish, D. (2017). Social Group Stories in the Media and Child Development. Pediatrics, 140(140S2). doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1758W 
• Dunn, E. R. (2017). Blue is the New Black: How Popular Culture is Romanticizing Mental Illness. 
• Festinger, L. (1954). A theory of social comparison processes. Human relations, 7(2), 117-140. 
• Lin, L., & Reid, K. (2009). The relationship between media exposure and antifat attitudes: The role of dysfunctional appearance beliefs. Body Image, 6(1), 52-55. 
• Matrix, S. (2014). The Netflix effect: Teens, binge watching, and on-demand digital media trends. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 6(1), 119-138. 
• Myrick, J. G., & Pavelko, R. L. (2017). Examining differences in audience recall and reaction between mediated portrayals of mental illness as trivializing versus stigmatizing. Journal of Health Communication, 22(11), 876-884. 
• Mullin, C. R., & Linz, D. (1995). Desensitization and resensitization to violence against women: Effects of exposure to sexually violent films on judgments of domestic violence victims. Journal of personality and social psychology, 69(3), 449. 
• Neumann, M. M., & Herodotou, C. (2020). Young Children and YouTube: A global phenomenon. Childhood Education, 96(4), 72-77. 
• Puhl, R., & Brownell, K. D. (2001). Bias, discrimination, and obesity. Obesity research, 9(12), 788-805. 
• Richins, M. (1991). Social comparison and the idealized images of advertising. Journal of Consumer Research, 18, 71–83. 
• Rodrigo, M. J., Padrón, I., De Vega, M., & Ferstl, E. C. (2014). Adolescents’ risky decision-making activates neural networks related to social cognition and cognitive control processes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 60. 
• Spitzer, B. L., Henderson, L. A., & Zivian, M. T. (1999). Gender differences in population versus media body sizes: A comparison over four decades. Sex Roles, 40, 545–565. 
• Wright, C. L., DeFrancesco, T., Hamilton, C., & Machado, L. (2020). The influence of media portrayals of immigration and refugees on consumer attitudes: A experimental design. Howard Journal of Communications, 31(4), 388-410.