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Article: Brown, Jane D., Jeanne R. Steele, and Kim Walsh-Childers (Eds.). Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality.(Book Review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- June 22, 2003
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Brown, Jane D., Jeanne R. Steele, and Kim Walsh-Childers (Eds.). Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality. Mahwah, NJ/London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. Pp. xiv, 308. ISBN 0-8058-3489-3 (hb.) $74.95; 0-8058-3490-7 (pb.) $29.95.
Today teens have a nearly unlimited access to media and spend roughly half of their waking hours with some form of media. Some teens sleep with the radio or TV in the background and many use more than one medium at a time. Recent studies estimate that female adolescents (8-18) use media 7:41 hours/day while males' average use is 8:10 hours/day (p. 11). In this daily media diet, young ...