Jane D Brown

Summary

Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Mass media influences on sexuality
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3365, USA
    J Sex Res 39:42-5. 2002
  2. ncbi Adolescents' sexual media diets
    J D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
    J Adolesc Health 27:35-40. 2000
  3. ncbi The media do matter: comment on Steinberg and Monahan (2011)
    Jane D Brown
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Dev Psychol 47:580-1; discussion 582-4. 2011
  4. ncbi Sexy media matter: exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines predicts black and white adolescents' sexual behavior
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3365, USA
    Pediatrics 117:1018-27. 2006
  5. ncbi Mass media as a sexual super peer for early maturing girls
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
    J Adolesc Health 36:420-7. 2005
  6. ncbi The mass media and American adolescents' health
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    J Adolesc Health 31:153-70. 2002
  7. ncbi From Calvin Klein to Paris Hilton and MySpace: adolescents, sex, and the media
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, 360 Carroll Hall CB 3365, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3365, USA
    Adolesc Med State Art Rev 18:484-507, vi-vii. 2007
  8. ncbi The mass media are an important context for adolescents' sexual behavior
    Kelly Ladin L'Engle
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
    J Adolesc Health 38:186-92. 2006
  9. ncbi R-rated movies, bedroom televisions, and initiation of smoking by white and black adolescents
    Christine Jackson
    Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1516 E Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:260-8. 2007
  10. ncbi "Let's Talk About Sex": pilot study of an interactive CD-ROM to prevent HIV/STIS in female adolescents
    Kristin E Ito
    Wake Teen Medical Services, Raleigh, NC, USA
    AIDS Educ Prev 20:78-89. 2008

Research Grants

  1. MASS MEDIA AND ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL HEALTH
    Jane Brown; Fiscal Year: 2004

Detail Information

Publications18

  1. ncbi Mass media influences on sexuality
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3365, USA
    J Sex Res 39:42-5. 2002
    ..More longitudinal research, especially with early adolescents is needed to learn more about how media content is attended to, interpreted, and incorporated into developing sexual lives...
  2. ncbi Adolescents' sexual media diets
    J D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
    J Adolesc Health 27:35-40. 2000
    ..Entertainment-education and media literacy are two strategies for increasing the possibility of healthy outcomes from adolescents' use of sexual media...
  3. ncbi The media do matter: comment on Steinberg and Monahan (2011)
    Jane D Brown
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Dev Psychol 47:580-1; discussion 582-4. 2011
    ..The media do matter in the sexual socialization of adolescents...
  4. ncbi Sexy media matter: exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines predicts black and white adolescents' sexual behavior
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3365, USA
    Pediatrics 117:1018-27. 2006
    ..To assess over time whether exposure to sexual content in 4 mass media (television, movies, music, and magazines) used by early adolescents predicts sexual behavior in middle adolescence...
  5. ncbi Mass media as a sexual super peer for early maturing girls
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
    J Adolesc Health 36:420-7. 2005
    ..Does puberty also stimulate interest in sexual media content that is seen as giving permission to engage in sexual behavior?..
  6. ncbi The mass media and American adolescents' health
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    J Adolesc Health 31:153-70. 2002
    ..A number of approaches that have potential for helping turn the media into more positive forces for adolescents' health are discussed..
  7. ncbi From Calvin Klein to Paris Hilton and MySpace: adolescents, sex, and the media
    Jane D Brown
    School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, 360 Carroll Hall CB 3365, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3365, USA
    Adolesc Med State Art Rev 18:484-507, vi-vii. 2007
    ..The media could become part of the solution as well as part of the problem - if there were more responsible portrayals of human sex and more widespread advertising of birth control products...
  8. ncbi The mass media are an important context for adolescents' sexual behavior
    Kelly Ladin L'Engle
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
    J Adolesc Health 38:186-92. 2006
    ..This study compared influences from the mass media (television, music, movies, magazines) on adolescents' sexual intentions and behaviors to other socialization contexts, including family, religion, school, and peers...
  9. ncbi R-rated movies, bedroom televisions, and initiation of smoking by white and black adolescents
    Christine Jackson
    Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1516 E Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:260-8. 2007
    ..To test movie exposure and television use as predictors of smoking initiation among white and black adolescents who had never smoked cigarettes...
  10. ncbi "Let's Talk About Sex": pilot study of an interactive CD-ROM to prevent HIV/STIS in female adolescents
    Kristin E Ito
    Wake Teen Medical Services, Raleigh, NC, USA
    AIDS Educ Prev 20:78-89. 2008
    ..HIV/STI knowledge increased significantly and nearly all adolescents intended to use condoms at next intercourse after viewing the CD-ROM. However, there were no significant differences measured between CD-ROM and comparison groups...
  11. ncbi Early adolescents' cognitive susceptibility to initiating sexual intercourse
    Kelly Ladin L'Engle
    Teen Media study, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
    Perspect Sex Reprod Health 38:97-105. 2006
    ..Better methods for investigating sexual risk before the initiation of sexual intercourse are needed to support programming for younger adolescents, especially for abstinent adolescents who are susceptible to initiating intercourse...
  12. ncbi Television use and snacking behaviors among children and adolescents in China
    Sarah A Parvanta
    Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    J Adolesc Health 46:339-45. 2010
    ..This study examines the association between TV watching and paying attention to TV commercials with buying and requesting snacks seen on commercials, and eating snacks while watching TV among youth in China...
  13. ncbi Media interventions to promote responsible sexual behavior
    Sarah N Keller
    Dept of Communication, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA
    J Sex Res 39:67-72. 2002
    ..Due to private ownership and First Amendment concerns, U.S. sexual health advocates have been working with the commercial media to incorporate subtle health messages into existing entertainment programming...
  14. ncbi Music videos, pro wrestling, and acceptance of date rape among middle school males and females: an exploratory analysis
    Christine Elizabeth Kaestle
    Department of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
    J Adolesc Health 40:185-7. 2007
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  15. ncbi HIV/AIDS coverage in Black newspapers, 1991-1996: implications for health communication and health education
    Kathryn Pickle
    Center for Health Statistics, Office of Disease Prevention and Epidemiology, Oregon Public Health Department of Human Services, Portland, Oregon 97293 0050, USA
    J Health Commun 7:427-44. 2002
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  16. ncbi Transitions into underage and problem drinking: developmental processes and mechanisms between 10 and 15 years of age
    Michael Windle
    Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd NE, Room 520, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Pediatrics 121:S273-89. 2008
    ..It is proposed that this integrated developmental perspective serve as the foundation for subsequent efforts to prevent and to treat the causes, problems, and consequences of alcohol consumption...
  17. ncbi Does MTV reach an appropriate audience for HIV prevention messages? Evidence from MTV viewership data in Nepal and Brazil
    Cynthia Waszak Geary
    Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    J Health Commun 11:665-81. 2006
    ..MTV viewing was associated with positive attitudes toward HIV prevention behaviors (except for abstinence until marriage) but not with premarital sexual activity...
  18. ncbi Media literacy has potential to improve adolescents' health
    Jane D Brown
    J Adolesc Health 39:459-60. 2006

Research Grants7

  1. MASS MEDIA AND ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL HEALTH
    Jane Brown; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..The longitudinal and comprehensive design of this study will provide the most current understanding of how the mass media affect the sexual beliefs and behaviors of adolescents. ..