Setting Research Directions for Media Literacy and Health Education: A Research Conference held April 15-17, 2000

摘要

This is a conference report of a two-day working conference held in April of 2000 with leading media educationudand public health researchers charged with the task of charting future directions for research inudmedia education. The goal of the conference was to identify approaches that should beudundertaken to measure the impact of media literacy interventions aimed at health threats to youth,udto stimulate descriptive evidence about the growth and nature of media literacy education in theudUnited States and around the world, and to begin to more fully appreciate the complex,udinterdisciplinary connections between the fields of media studies, education and public health thatudresearch about the practice of media literacy demands and inspires. Conference sponsors: Johnson & Johnson;udCenter for Substance Abuse Prevention;ud(HHS Secretary's Initiative on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention);udNational Cancer Institute;udCenters for Disease Control and Prevention;udAmerican Academy of Pediatrics;udAlliance for a Media Literate America;udJournalism Resources Institute. The full text of this document can be downloadedudor sent to others, and photos of the conference can be viewed on the conference site (udhttp://www.mediastudies.rutgers.edu/mh_conference/index.html).