Journal of Children and Media - Special Issue: Children, Media, and Health

Special Issue:   Children, Media, and Health

Guest Editors:
Dina L.G. Borzekowski, EdD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
dborzeko AT jhsph.edu
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, Center on Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital Boston,
michael.rich AT childrens.harvard.edu

Media, in various formats, can influence the healthy development of children and
adolescents in both positive and negative ways.  This special issue of the Journal of
Children and Media will add to the inter-disciplinary literature by providing
well-designed studies and theoretical papers exploring whether and how media use affects
the physical, mental, and behavioral health of young people.

We invite contributions to a special issue on Children, Media, and Health from a wide
range of disciplines, perspectives, theoretical, and methodological approaches.  The
guest editors are particularly interested in compiling quality papers that can inform
risk assessment, intervention design, and positive media applications aimed at a
diversity of populations, technologies and content.

Examples of potential papers might be:

-          Examining how young people use, multitask with, and are exposed to various
media and how  these uses/exposures influence their lifestyles, health, education, and
development.

-          Reporting evaluated media literacy programs and other interventions which
have been demonstrated to limit or reduce negative health effects from media use.

-          Examining whether and how broadcast, print, or interactive media can educate,
empower, and reduce risky behaviors among children and youth.

-          Considering whether use of electronic games, such as the Wii, can support the
physical development of toddlers and fitness of children and youth.

-          Sharing interactive media interventions shown to improve quality of life
among adolescents with chronic or psychiatric conditions.

-          Studying whether interactive technology such as texting can improve health
education and communication among adolescents and their health care providers.

-          Analyzing how public health messages and entertainment media can educate and
activate improved  health practices in different cultures.

A 300 word abstract, full contact information for the corresponding author, and a
biographical note (up to 75 words) on each of the authors should be submitted to Dr.
Dina Borzekowski (dborzeko@jhsph.edu) as an e-mail attachment
by no later than March 15, 2010.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by March 31, 2010 and will then be
invited to submit a full paper to the guest editors.  Manuscripts should be no more than
8,000 words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and submitted by
August 1, 2010.  Expected publication date is Volume 6 issue 1, Winter 2012. An
invitation to submit a full paper does not constitute a commitment for publication; all
papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission.

We look forward to what we anticipate to be interesting and important papers.

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