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By Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, Kim Walsh-Childers

ISBN-10: 0805834893

ISBN-13: 9780805834895

ISBN-10: 0805834907

ISBN-13: 9780805834901

This assortment explores the sexual content material of U.S. mass media and its impression within the lives of youth. participants tackle the subject of sexuality widely, together with facts not just approximately actual intercourse acts, but in addition concerning the function the media play within the improvement of gender roles, criteria of attractiveness, courtship, and courting norms. Chapters incorporated right here current new views on what youngsters are being attentive to within the media, and supply perception into how youngsters are figuring out and utilizing what the media current approximately intercourse and sexuality. utilizing a number of methodological techniques, the experiences additionally characterize a variety of adolescent audiences and care for a large choice of media content material, starting from children' favourite television courses to magazines, video clips, track, and teenage women' web content. Taken as a complete, this quantity highlights the numerous roles the media play in teens' sexual lives. Sexual young people, Sexual Media contributes vital facts to the continued debate over media results, making it crucial interpreting for students and scholars in media experiences, in addition to social and developmental psychology.

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18 BROWN, STEELE, WALSH-CHILDERS In short, adolescents have some control over media’s influence on them and, thanks to new media technologies, they have it within their power to produce sexual media content. In addition, as audience members and as consumers they have considerable influence over what more mainstream media producers offer. Some are choosing less nutritious sexual media diets than others. Some are able to resist the temptations of the mainstream culture that says that women should be thin and beautiful, men strong, and both should be engaged in sexual activity, consequences be damned.

Social cognitive theory of mass communication. In J. Bryant & D. ), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (pp. 61–90). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Blum, R. W. (1997, December). Adolescent females: Vulnerabilities and risk reduction. Paper presented at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and the Family Impact Seminar, Washington, DC. Brown, J. , & Newcomer, S. (1991). Television viewing and adolescents’ sexual behavior. Journal of Homosexuality, 21(1/2), 77–91.

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