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Monday, May 03, 2010
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM |
| Session Number: 3255 |
| Media and Technology â Impact on Children, Adolescents and Their Parents |
| PAS State of the Art Plenary |
| Vancouver Convention Centre ~ East Ballroom C |
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| Target Audience: Clinicians involved with babies, children, and teens and scientists and psychologists providers involved in public health or health education. |
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| Objectives:
- Identify major areas of concern regarding the impact of media and technology (including popular social networking sites) on children and adolescents[br]- Understand current public health efforts to integrate media and technology toward improving health care access, information and education[br]- Identify potential solutions to avoiding harmful media |
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| Chairs: Victor C. Strasburger, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM and Megan A. Moreno, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
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| According to the latest studies, the media and new technology (including social networking sites) may have a significant impact on virtually every concern that pediatricians and parents have about children and adolescents -- aggression, drugs, sex, obesity, eating disorders, school performance, suicide, even ADD. This session will review the current state-of-the-art research on media and new technology, including very new research on infant videos, smoking and drinking in movies, sexual content and its impact, popular social networking sites and sexting. Examples of potentially problematic content on TV and movies will be shown, as well as examples of pro-social media. Topic areas will include: Media Violence, Sex [amp] the Media, Drugs, Advertising, Obesity [amp] Eating Disorders, New Technology, What the Pediatrician Can Do, What Schools, the Entertainment Industry, and the Federal Government Need to Do. Attendees will learn how to counsel parents effectively about media effects in less than a minute of office time. New strategies to use media and technology for public health benefit will be discussed. |
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Megan A Moreno
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
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Children, Adolescents and the Media
Victor C Strasburger
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM |
| 10:20 AM - |
Children, Adolescents, [amp] the Media: What We Know, What We Don[apos]t Know, and What We Need To Find out (Quickly!)
Victor C Strasburger
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM |
| 11:10 AM - |
New Media (Social Networking Sites [ndash] Good and Bad)
Megan A Moreno
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 11:40 AM - |
Extending Public Health Interventions Using Social Media
Jason Bonander
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA |
| 12:00 PM - |
Discussion
Discussion
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| Program developed by the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the Pediatric Academic Societies |
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