MASS MEDIA AND YOUTH

JOURN 565

Use and effects of mass communication for individuals and societies. Examines who is affected, what effects occur and how much, what different media content is involved and what situations make effects more or less likely.

JOURN 561

Relationships between mass communications and society; analysis and evaluation of media performance and of suggestions for change.

COMARTS 325

Investigate the ways in which individuals use, create, and respond to media content in the context of increasingly blurred boundaries between "mass" and "interpersonal" media. We will consider social scientific theories and research on a wide array of topics, including media uses and effects with regard to social connection, learning, judgments, perceptions, stereotypes, violence, consumption, and political participation.

COMARTS/EDPSYCH 626

Advanced level seminar that involves critical analysis of conceptual and methodological issues underlying empirical research on how social media affect and are affected by adolescent development, provides a venue for feedback on design of research studies involving youth and social media, and fosters interdisciplinary approaches to studying connections between youth development and social media use.

JOURN 801

Theory and research on individuals' use of mass communication and effects of mass communication. Topics include choice, selection and functions of mass media use, attention and cognitive processing, information effects, persuasion and emotion/involvement, and social and behaviroal effects.