ESPAD is a collaborative effort of independent research teams in more than forty European countries and the largest cross-national research project on adolescent substance use in the world. The overall aim with the project is to repeatedly collect comparable data on substance use among 15–16 year old students in as many European countries as possible.
Hearst Magazines is pushing into the mobile space this week with the introduction of new cell phone sites for Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Cosmo Girl -- with more planned this spring for Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Esquire, Popular Mechanics and House Beau
The most extensive research yet on how young people use media -- and how newspapers can use this information to attract a new generation of readers -- will be unveiled at the 7th World Young Reader Conference, to be held in Washington, D.C., from 25 to 28
Youth as E-Citizens was initiated by the Center for Media Education. With the closing of the Center in the fall of 2003, the project joined the Center for Social Media. Initial funding for this multi-year research project was provided by the Center for In
The folks at PBS led by veteran broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff have spend the past year traveling the country interviewing "Millennials" and experts for a series called "GENERATION NEXT: Speak Up. Be Heard." which will debut on PBS stations January 12
The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking Among American Youth In recent years, the issue of media multitasking has sparked a broad discussion about the potential impact on children and youth and has raised concerns among non-pr
The Internet and mobile phones are changing the way tweens and teens define friendship and interact with their peers, according to a new study by Harris Interactive and Alloy Media & Marketing.
Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her fellow English classmates at Falls Church Hig
Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do 11/2/2005