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Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Ellen A. Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children's development. She is the chair and professor of communication, director of Northwestern University's Center on Media and Human Development, and an adviser for the review at Northwestern University. She studies social policy, media studies, psychology, and child development at the University. She believes that smartphones are disruptive in a way that's different from earlier technology.

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The Influence of Media Violence on Youth (2003) (955)
Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers (2003) (669)
Digital Childhood: Electronic Media and Technology Use Among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers (2007) (468)
Young children's screen time: The complex role of parent and child factors (2015) (426)
Media and Young Children's Learning (2008) (310)
Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey (2016) (277)
Factors influencing digital technology use in early childhood education (2014) (273)
Children and computers: new technology--old concerns. (2000) (270)
Screen Media Exposure and Obesity in Children and Adolescents (2017) (265)
How children learn to buy : the development of consumer information-processing skills (1977) (260)
How children learn to buy (1977) (241)
Parental Co-Use of Media Technology with their Young Children in the USA (2015) (220)
Adoption and use of technology in early education: The interplay of extrinsic barriers and teacher attitudes (2013) (218)
Mass Communication Review Yearbook (1987) (202)
Historical Trends in Research on Children and the Media: 1900–1960 (1985) (184)
MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (1998) (160)
Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols: Promoting Healthier Choices (2012) (157)
“No—You Can’t Watch That” (2005) (153)
Measuring the Effects of Sexual Content in the Media: A Report to the Kaiser Family Foundation. (1998) (146)
Measuring with Murray: Touchscreen technology and preschoolers' STEM learning (2016) (127)
The Sage handbook of media studies (2004) (121)
Word learning from baby videos. (2010) (119)
Examination of front-of-package nutrition rating systems and symbols: Phase I report. (2011) (109)
Just a talking book? Word learning from watching baby videos. (2009) (106)
A Cognitive Developmental Study of Children's Attention To Television Commercials (1974) (103)
When the Television Is Always On (2005) (103)
Communicating More than Content: Formal Features of Children's Television Programs (1981) (99)
Children and Interactive Media: A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future (2000) (96)
Children and television: Fifty years of research (2009) (94)
Hey Google, Do Unicorns Exist?: Conversational Agents as a Path to Answers to Children's Questions (2019) (92)
The influence of TPACK contextual factors on early childhood educators' tablet computer use (2016) (88)
The Mobile Generation: Youth and Adolescent Ownership and Use of New Media (2014) (79)
Industry progress to market a healthful diet to American children and adolescents. (2011) (77)
Newspapers and citizenship: Young adults’ subjective experience of newspapers (1991) (74)
Babies, television and videos: How did we get here? (2010) (66)
Babies, television and videos: How did we get here? (2010) (66)
Youth and reading: A survey of leisure reading pursuits of female and male adolescents (1991) (57)
Using social media influencers to increase knowledge and positive attitudes toward the flu vaccine (2020) (55)
American communication research : the remembered history (1996) (50)
Children communicating : media and development of thought, speech, understanding (1979) (49)
Learning to code via tablet applications: An evaluation of Daisy the Dinosaur and Kodable as learning tools for young children (2019) (48)
COMMITTEE ON EXAMINATION OF FRONT-OF-PACKAGE NUTRITION RATING SYSTEMS AND SYMBOLS (2010) (48)
Introduction: Electronic Media Use in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers (2005) (45)
A Review of Cognitive Development Theory and Research and the Implication for Research On Children's Responses To Television (1977) (45)
Supporting Head Start parents: impact of a text message intervention on parent–child activity engagement (2015) (45)
What kind of adults will our children become? The impact of growing up in a media-saturated world (2016) (43)
Learning to be Consumers: The Role of the Family (1977) (41)
Young citizens, American TV newscasts and the collective memory (1998) (40)
Historical and Recurring Concerns about Children's Use of the Mass Media (2009) (38)
Television and Beyond (1990) (37)
Technology in the Lives of Educators and Early Childhood Programs (2013) (36)
The Development of Consumer Information-Processing Skills: Integrating Cognitive Development and Family Interaction Theories (1977) (36)
Children and the Internet: Developmental Implications of Web Site Preferences Among 8- to 12-Year-Old Children (2014) (35)
Children and Interactive Media Research Compendium Update (2002) (35)
The “New” Technology Environment: The Role of Content and Context on Learning and Development from Mobile Media (2017) (32)
Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Issues (1989) (32)
Parent teaching focus and toddlers' learning from an infant DVD (2010) (31)
Effects of Exergame Play on EF in Children and Adolescents at a Summer Camp for Low Income Youth (2014) (31)
TECHNOLOGY IN THE LIVES OF TEACHERS AND CLASSROOMS : Survey of Classroom Teachers and Family Child Care Providers (2010) (30)
Parent-child interaction and children's learning from a coding application (2019) (29)
From Baby Einstein to Leapfrog, From Doom to The Sims, From Instant Messaging to Internet Chat Rooms: Public Interest in the Role of Interactive Media in Children's Lives (2004) (29)
Effects of sibling coviewing on children's interpretations of television programs (1987) (27)
Interventions: Feminist Theory and Communication Studies (1986) (26)
Government and school progress to promote a healthful diet to American children and adolescents: a comprehensive review of the available evidence. (2012) (25)
Rethinking Communication: Vol. 2: Paradigm Exemplars. (1990) (24)
The Audience and Its Landscape (2018) (24)
New Members of the Family: The Digital Revolution in the Home (2001) (23)
YOUNG CHILDREN, NEW MEDIA (2007) (23)
Recurring issues in research on children and media (1983) (22)
Content Themes and Influential Voices Within Vaccine Opposition on Twitter, 2019. (2020) (22)
Cognitive and Affective Factors of TV Advertising's Influence on Children. (1984) (20)
An Historical Comparison of Children's Use of Leisure Time (1990) (20)
The Growing Commercialization of Schools: Issues and Practices (1998) (20)
The Commercialization of Youth: Channel One in Context (1995) (19)
Studying Social Memory (1989) (18)
Digital childhood: Electronic media use among infants, toddlers and preschoolers (2007) (18)
Children and television: 50 Years of research (2006) (16)
A View from the past into our collective future: the oncofertility consortium vision statement (2021) (16)
Increasing Learning from TV News (1982) (16)
Who’s modeling STEM for kids? A character analysis of children’s STEM-focused television in the US (2020) (16)
Television as a medium of communication: Implications for how to regard the child viewer (1981) (16)
STEM Media in the Family Context: The Effect of STEM Career and Media Use on Preschoolers’ Science and Math Skills (2018) (16)
Challenge to the profession (1994) (15)
The Mass Media Environment of Children (1979) (15)
Media Coverage of the "Political Correctness" Debate. (1992) (15)
Children and Television: The Development of the Child's Understanding of the Medium. (1979) (15)
The Influence of Active Gaming on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Black and Hispanic Youth. (2018) (15)
Estimates of Children's Television Viewing by Mother and Child. (1981) (14)
The Evolution of Models of Mass Communication and Persuasion (1991) (14)
Children and Electronic Media (2012) (14)
Digital Technology and Families (2012) (14)
Individual Differences in Children's Responses to Television Advertising: Teaching, Violence, Selling (1981) (13)
Food Marketing to Children Online: A Content Analysis of Food Company Websites (2017) (13)
Content analysis across new media platforms: Methodological considerations for capturing media-rich data (2018) (13)
TECHNOLOGY AND THE FAMILY (2003) (12)
Play in a Digital World: How Interactive Digital Games Shape the Lives of Children. (2019) (12)
Haptic explorers: Supporting science journaling through mobile haptic feedback displays (2019) (12)
Educational Apps (2015) (11)
Television Visual Violence in Reality Programs: Differences across Genres (1998) (10)
Changing Conceptual Views of Children's Consumer Information Processing (1982) (10)
Children's Consumer Information Processing: Representation of Information From Television Advertisements (1978) (10)
Children and Families in the Digital Age : Learning Together in a Media Saturated Culture (2017) (10)
The Public as Dummies (1988) (10)
13 Reasons Why, Perceived Norms, and Reports of Mental Health-Related Behavior Change among Adolescent and Young Adult Viewers in Four Global Regions (2020) (10)
Hazards and Possibilities of Commercial Media in the Schools (2001) (9)
The role of spatial abilities in young children’s spatially-focused touchscreen game play (2021) (9)
Evaluation of a campaign to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in New Jersey. (2020) (9)
Producing Children's Television Programs (1994) (9)
Raising a world-wise child and the power of media: The impact of television on children's intercultural knowledge (2004) (9)
Children and the Formats of Television Advertising (1983) (9)
Media and Society (2011) (8)
The power of parent attitudes: Examination of parent attitudes toward traditional and emerging technology (2021) (8)
Technology In the Lives of Teachers and Classrooms: Survey of Early Childhood Teachers and Childcare Providers (2010) (8)
Mass Communication and Persuasion: The Evolution of Direct Effects, Limited Effects, Information Processing and Affect and Arousal Models (1991) (8)
Exploring Parent Use of Early STEM Media to Inform Design for Children (2019) (8)
Violence and Media (2001) (8)
Studying Media Effects on Children (2009) (7)
Mobile marketing to children: a content analysis of food and beverage company apps. (2016) (7)
“When You’re a Baby You Don’t Have Puberty”: Understanding of Puberty and Human Reproduction in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence (2017) (7)
Advertising and consumer development: 50 Years of research (2006) (7)
Advertising and consumer development (2009) (7)
Digital Media Use by Young Children (2019) (7)
Using short message (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) to encourage positive parent–child engagement around literacy and language development (2019) (7)
Handbook of Media Studies (2004) (7)
Violence and Media: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001) (7)
Young Children's Learning from Screen Media (2012) (7)
The Child as Viewer (1981) (6)
Challenges and Suggestions for Determining Quality in Children’s Media (2013) (6)
Siblings’ strategies for resolving conflict over television program choice (1989) (6)
Predicting Social Networking Site Use and Online Communication Practices among Adolescents: The Role of Access and Device Ownership (2014) (6)
New Generations – New Media (2002) (5)
Children and Media: On Growth and Gaps (1999) (5)
'A New You, That’s Who': an evaluation of short videos on puberty and human reproduction (2018) (5)
The reification of irrelevancy: a comment on "The reification of normalcy". (1999) (5)
Parenting in the Age of Technology: Parent Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Children’s Media Use (2013) (5)
Should babies be watching television and DVDs? (2012) (5)
Children and Interactive Media: A Research Compendium (2000) (5)
Special audience, special concerns: Children and the media: Improving achievement for young learners (2008) (5)
The Developmental Perspective: Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research (1979) (5)
Non-academic audiences for content analysis research (2008) (5)
Investigating Viewership of Season 3 of "13 Reasons Why" and the Mental Wellness of Adolescents: Partially Randomized Preference Trial. (2020) (4)
Food Marketing to Children & Youth: Threat or Opportunity (2006) (4)
Computers, TV, and Very Young Children: What Impact on Development? (2001) (4)
The Role of Stimulus Complexity in Children's Attention to Television Commercials: A Developmental Study. (1973) (4)
Children and Adolescents: Television, Computers, and Media Viewing (2016) (4)
Getting to Know You: How Children Make Sense of Television (1986) (4)
History of Nutrition Labeling (2010) (3)
The Role of Interactive Media in Children's Cognitive Development (2007) (3)
Crowd pleasers: media characters in food company websites and apps for children (2019) (3)
The Role of Adolescent Development in Social Networking Site Use: Theory and Evidence (2014) (3)
Commentary on Qualitative Research and Children's Mediated Communication (1987) (3)
Parent Sensitive Topic Understanding, Communication Comfort, and Parent-Adolescent Conversation Following Exposure to 13 Reasons Why: A Comparison of Parents from Four Countries (2021) (3)
Early Learning, Academic Achievement and Children's Digital Media Use (2014) (3)
Early Learning and Healthy Development in a Digital Age (2016) (3)
Food Marketing, Television, and Video Games (2011) (3)
Smartphones and Tablets and Kids – Oh My, Oh My (2019) (3)
No--you can't watch that": Parental rules and young children's television use (2005) (3)
Health information and monitoring among Qatari adolescents 2017: An overview (2018) (2)
Communication and Children: Development of Language, Communicative Competence and Understanding of Media (1987) (2)
Controversy sells, but what about science? Press coverage of 13 Reasons Why (2018) (2)
Introduction (2005) (2)
Purpose and Merits of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems (2010) (2)
Methodological Advances in the Field of Media Influences on Children (2015) (2)
Communication Research on Children and Public Policy: New Directions in Communication Research (1993) (2)
Preschoolers' STEM Learning on a Haptic Enabled Tablet (2020) (2)
Television, Cognition and Learning (1987) (2)
“The Kids Hate It, but We Love It!”: Parents’ Reviews of Circle (2020) (2)
The Evolution of Mass Media and Health Persuasion Models (2001) (2)
Growing and Glowing: A Digital Media Campaign to Increase Access to Pregnancy-Related Health Information for Black Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (2)
“Maybe we do more Science than I had Initially Thought”: How Parental Efficacy Affects Preschool-Aged Children’s Science and Math Activities and Media Use (2021) (2)
On US journalism education (2000) (2)
The Influence of Media on Young Children's Development. (2012) (2)
Communicating Oncofertility to Children: A Developmental Perspective for Teaching Health Messages (2014) (2)
A Review of Cognitive Developmental Theory and Research and Discussion of Implications for Research on Children's Responses to Television Advertising (1973) (2)
Impact of Exposure to a Counter-Stereotypical STEM Television Program on Children’s Gender- and Race-Based STEM Occupational Schema (2022) (2)
Progress on Public Policy: The Aftermath of the 2005 Institute of Medicine Report on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth (2013) (1)
Teachers' Perceived Support Toward Technology Integration Scale (2014) (1)
Children and Television Violence: UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen (1998) (1)
Research about violence in the media: different traditions and changing paradigms (1998) (1)
Monitoring "Reality" Television: The National Television Violence Study (1999) (1)
The Public Context of Debates about TV and Children (1988) (1)
Mental Health Stigma Reduction in the Midwest: Evidence from a Digital Campaign Using a Collective Impact Model (2021) (1)
Mapping the Distribution of Children's Digital Media Practices: Methodological Innovations and Challenges (2014) (1)
Overview of Health and Diet in America (2010) (1)
Children's Impressions of Television Mothers (1980) (1)
Digital media as a parenting support tool for Hispanic families in the United States (2017) (1)
U.S. adolescents’ attitudes toward school, social connection, media use, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Differences as a function of gender identity and school context (2022) (1)
FDA Regulatory Requirements for Nutrient Content Claims (2010) (1)
Plenary Session II. New Generations – New Media. New Generations – New Media (2002) (1)
Mental Health Stigma Reduction in the Midwestern United States: Evidence from a Digital Campaign Using a Collective Impact Model (2022) (1)
A Survey of the Structure of Science and Environmental Writing Courses (1979) (1)
Piagetian Accounts of Child Development in Media Research (2020) (1)
Glossary with Abbreviations and Acronyms (2010) (1)
The Effect of Sibling Viewing Style on Children's Interpretation of Television Content. (1986) (1)
Young children's social and independent behavior during play with a coding app: Digital game features matter in a 1: 1 child to tablet setting (2022) (1)
A Survey of the Structure of Science Writing Courses. (1978) (1)
The Collective Impact Model for Mental Health Stigma Reduction: A Campaign in the Omaha Metropolitan Area (2021) (1)
GENERAL COMMUNICATION (2000) (0)
Sources of Criteria and Program Information and Sample Product Evaluations (2010) (0)
[Content Themes and Influential Voices Within Vaccine Opposition on Twitter, 2019]. (2021) (0)
(Guest Editors). Special Issue: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers (2005) (0)
Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Dialogues (1989) (0)
Scientific Basis of Front-of-Package Systems (2010) (0)
Biography of Peggy Charren (1996) (0)
'A New You, That’s Who': an evaluation of short videos on puberty and human reproduction (2018) (0)
Committee Member Biographical Sketches (2010) (0)
Women and Television Advertising: The Marketing Context of Stereotyping (1980) (0)
Investigating the Ways By Which a Global Entertainment Program Impacts the Mental Wellness of Adolescent Viewers: A Randomized Controlled Study (Preprint) (2020) (0)
Preschool teachers’ perspectives on (haptic) technology in the classroom (2022) (0)
Feminst Critiques of Popular Culture (2022) (0)
A Collaboration between Healthcare and Esports to Impact Youth Mental Health and Wellness: Evaluating the Presence of Mind Initiative (2022) (0)
Family Dynamics: The influence of family structure on parent stress, support networks, and family activities (2015) (0)
Television Watching as an Information Processing Task: Programming and Advertising. (1979) (0)
Television Violence in "Reality" Programming: Scientific Papers (1996) (0)
“Like” It or Not (2014) (0)
History and Current Status of Front-of-Package Systems (2010) (0)
Diffusion Research at Columbia Elihu Katz (2013) (0)
Young Children and Media: A Snapshot of Public Interest, Public Concerns and Children's Media Organizations (2006) (0)
Response to A Mission of Learning: Twenty-two Suggestions for Reducing the Tension Between Teaching and Research at the Public Research University (1995) (0)
Teachers' Attitudes Toward Value of Technology Scale (2014) (0)
When it comes to ignorance, there's a lot we don't know (1987) (0)
Children as an Audience (1990) (0)
Authors' Note (2003) (0)
Public Policy Issues Regarding Limiting Food Marketing to Children (2008) (0)
The Audiences for Content Analysis: A Decisions Approach to Content Analysis (2009) (0)
Strategies for the Communications Unit: How Can We Become Central to the University and Its Mission? (1996) (0)
Television Violence in ‘Reality’ Programming 1996-1997 (1995) (0)
Beyond the mass audience (1988) (0)
Trends in Research on Children's Television (1984) (0)
The ABCs of Media and Children: Attention, Behavior, and Comprehension (2016) (0)
Information/Communication and Education (1994) (0)
Glowing and Growing: A Digital Media Campaign to Increase Access to Pregnancy-Related Health Information for Black Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (0)
Public Debates about Children and Media in the United States (1986) (0)
Children’s Spatial Play With a Block Building Touchscreen Application (2022) (0)
Television Violence in "Reality" (Non-Fictional) Programming: The University of Texas at Austin Study (1998) (0)
GR8 Parenting: Impact of Text Message Intervention on Parent-Child Activity Engagement (2014) (0)
The role of different characters on story-consistent attitudes and self-reported mental health-related behavior change among viewers of 13 Reasons Why. (2022) (0)
Television Violence in Reality Programming, Year III Results (1997) (0)
“ The debate about media violence has followed the history of media . . . as well as the history of our field ? (2001) (0)
Experience With Service Scale (2016) (0)
Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going? (2007) (0)
Online Communication Patterns of Chinese and Mexican Adolescents Living in the United States (2019) (0)
Children Communicating: Vol. 7, Sage Annual Review of Communication Research (1979) (0)
Media and the Problem Behaviors of Adolescents: Time Trends and Their Origins (1995) (0)
Children's Impressions of Television Families (1978) (0)
Media and the Modern Family: The Influence of Family Structure on Enjoyment and Use of Family Media Activities (2015) (0)
"Like" It or Not: The Impact of Facebook and Social Networking Sites on Adolescents' Responses to Peer Influence (2014) (0)
Violence and U.S. Television (2002) (0)
Children's Social Learning from Family Oriented Television Programs (1976) (0)
A Collaboration Between Health Care and Esports to Impact Youth Mental Health and Wellness: Evaluating the Presence of Mind Initiative (2022) (0)
Behind the Reasons: The Relationship Between Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health Risk Factors and Exposure to Season One of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why (2021) (0)
High-Quality Early Childhood Development: Implementing Large-Scale Programs in Global Contexts. Social Policy Report Brief. (2018) (0)
Sex Stereotyping in Advertising. Alice E. Courtney , Thomas W. WhippleForever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Marjorie Ferguson (1985) (0)
Conclusions and Plans for Phase II (2010) (0)
Parent viewership of 13 reasons why and parental perceived knowledge about adolescent life: implications for parental efficacy among parents from the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Australia/New Zealand (2021) (0)
What a Media Effects Researcher Learned About Reading the History of Media Effects (2021) (0)
Progress Achieved toward the IOM food marketing report recommendations for American children and adolescents, 2005–2010 (2011) (0)
Media Violence Contributes to Violence in American Life (1996) (0)
THE DATAFICATION OF CHILDHOOD: EXAMINING CHILDREN’S AND PARENTS’ DATA PRACTICES, CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND PARENTS’ DILEMMAS (2020) (0)

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