Assessing Effects of a Media Literacy-Based Intervention on US Adolescents' Responses to and Interpretations of Sexual Media Messages

Pinkleton, Bruce E.; Austin, Erica Weintraub; Chen, Yi-Chun Yvonnes; Cohen, Marilyn

doi:10.1080/17482798.2013.781512

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“…An online website, Media Smarts: Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy (n.d.) provides curricula, action guides, and training programs that educators can access for use in their classrooms (see Steeves, 2014). Austin, Pinkleton, Hust, and Cohen (2005) and Pinkleton, Austin, Chen, and Cohen (2013) found that adolescent education on media literacy led to their more critical consumption of media related to tobacco use and of media related to sexual behaviour.…”

Section: Implications: Digital and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescents Negotiating Romantic Relationships in a Culturally Diverse, Urban Community

Cameron¹,

Luft²,

Dmytro

et al. 2017

IJCYFS

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Abstract:In this study we examined the negotiation of romantic relationships by urban youth, as discussed in focus groups, in a multicultural community. We compared these urban-student findings for an emergent fit with previously reported findings from more homogeneous groups of rural students. The unifying category, wrestling with gender expectations, which was identified in the rural studies, also emerged in the present study. A new unifying category represented urban participants' balancing cultural expectations in the contexts of their families and social groups. Three categories from the former rural studies emerged in the present urban study: making sacrifices, showing respect, and standing up for oneself; and a new category emerged: communicating. While the rural students identified media as critical contextual conditions for romantic relationships, the current urban teens identified digital and social media as crucial contextual conditions in dating relationships. Together, these findings suggest the importance of considering cultural and contextual aspects of youths' dating processes for developing a grounded theory that reflects aspects of teens' relational lives. Implications of this emergent theory are explored, and directions for future research are suggested.

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Section: Implications: Digital and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescents Negotiating Romantic Relationships in a Culturally Diverse, Urban Community

Cameron¹,

Luft²,

Dmytro

et al. 2017

IJCYFS

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“…A judgment sample employing a matched-group design ensured participants represented a wide range of geographic and demographic characteristics present in students living in the targeted state. Initial evaluations of each implementation indicated that desirability perceptions had remained unchanged (Pinkleton et al, 2012(Pinkleton et al, , 2013.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The lesson plan was consistent in both waves, but the second wave included minor refinements and updates of media examples. The original evaluations of the curricula and more details about those curricula can be found in Pinkleton et al (2012Pinkleton et al ( , 2013.…”

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“…A design of pretest-posttest with control groups is necessary to test for individual changes in how perceived desirability affects key decision-making outcomes strongly connected to behavior. This study therefore tests the double-edged desirability proposition in a suitable pretest-posttest design, using the two Pinkleton et al (2012Pinkleton et al ( , 2013 data sets, to test whether a media-literacy treatment can change the influence of perceived desirability on outcomes related to behavior, regardless of whether it changes their perceptions of desirability itself.…”

Section: How Media Literacy Might Alter the Role Of Positive Affect Imentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Nevertheless, their reported levels of perceived desirability regarding media messages about sex remained unchanged. In the second study (Pinkleton et al, 2013), also a matched-group-design quasi-experiment conducted in the field with pretest and posttest and similar measures (N ¼ 1,098), treatment group participants at posttest demonstrated an increased belief that media portrayals affect teens' decisions about sex, increased perceptions that delaying sexual activity is normative, decreased levels of risky expectancies, and increased levels of efficacy for delaying sexual activity, but also maintained their original levels of perceived desirability regarding portrayals of sex in media messages. Meanwhile, a pilot test of the curriculum (N ¼ 532) that had employed a posttest-only design (Pinkleton et al, 2008) had found that treatment group participants exhibited lower levels of desirability than control group participants had reported, the expected result.…”

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Young people are exposed to a substantial number of misleading media messages concerning alcohol that negatively influence their attitudes and behavior. While questions remain and experts continue to conduct additional research, study results indicate that media literacy has potential to help reduce alcohol abuse. In particular, media literacy training can help increase knowledge regarding media and marketing practices, correct misperceptions, and increase critical thinking skills resulting in greater skepticism toward media messages. In addition, media literacy can help correct adolescents' expectancies regarding alcohol consumption and increase their perceived efficacy to resist the allure of glamorized media portrayals As health promotion experts continue to use media literacy programming, there are important issues to consider in the implementation and evaluation of media literacy campaigns. Through appropriate research, experts can build upon past success and address critical issues that will help increase our understanding of media literacy and its effectiveness.

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Assessing Effects of a Media Literacy-Based Intervention on US Adolescents' Responses to and Interpretations of Sexual Media Messages

Cited by 32 publications

References 45 publications

Adolescents Negotiating Romantic Relationships in a Culturally Diverse, Urban Community

Adolescents Negotiating Romantic Relationships in a Culturally Diverse, Urban Community

Processing of Sexual Media Messages Improves Due to Media Literacy Effects on Perceived Message Desirability

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