Keeping Pace With Teen Media Use: Implications and Strategies for Educators

摘要: Concerns over the relation between media use and adolescent health behaviors have stimulated many curricula in high schools. Missing from this area's literature is how teens characterize their own thoughts on media's place lives. This gap challenges educators charged with education. The authors explored adolescents' preferences perceptions surrounding its implications. Participants were 21 students a large (2,200 students) economically racially diverse school who participated semistructured, 1-on-1 interviews. Results of study demonstrate range perspectives issues such as pleasure guilt use, parental concerns influence personal behaviors. These results suggest important implications strategies for educational practice.