CPC Fellow Jane Brown Interviewed about Her Research on Sex and the Media
Apr 25, 2006
"Teens are defaulting to entertainment media for sexual information because they are not getting this information in other places," said Dr. Jane D. Brown, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina.
The full article appears on www.vnunet.com
The
article is based on Brown's research published in Pediatrics: Jane D.
Brown, Kelly Ladin L'Engle, Carol J. Pardun, Guang Guo, Kristin
Kenneavy, and Christine Jackson. Sexy Media Matter: Exposure to Sexual
Content in Music, Movies, Television and Magazines Predicts Black and
White Adolescents' Sexual Behavior. Pediatrics, April 2006; 117:
1018-27.