1. Chapter 9 Review Preview Exam 2, project 2, and grades-to-date ready
Project 2 comments
Exam 2 review
Generation Like review
Chapter quiz
What is mass media?
Types of media: screen (pictorial) media, print media, audio(sound) media, and digital media, and multimedia.
Media and levels of influence: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.

2. Exam 2 N=20 Range=28-90% Mean=66% Median=69% Mode=n/a
One question (#26a/25b) was missed by more than 75% of students.

3. Generation Like http://video.pbs.org/video/2365181302/
What is the significance of the title?
Explain the “intertwining worlds of social media and commerce.”
Why, do you think, many of today’s youth have a different understanding … or no understanding ... of “selling out”, versus previous generations?
Do you agree or disagree with this statement: Facebook and other social media are “obvious” and “transparent” about the information they collect from me and how they use it.

4. Frontline Videos Kids and Media
Merchants of Cool (2001)
Growing Up Online (2008)
Generation Like (2014)
Extra Credit

5. ‪Instagram Star Reveals The Truth Behind Her Photos‬

6. Anxiety: The Unexpected Health Crisis That’s Crippling Today’s Youth
Sixteen year old girl explains her thought about Instagram and Snapchat … “It’s nice to be able to say, ‘Wow, there are people out there who are like me and are into what I’m into,’” she said. “But it’s so easy for people to be mean.”
Certainly, social media have provided a crucial sense of connectedness to children who may feel isolated, but there are risks that attend not having adult support in interpreting so much unfiltered content.
“In the past, information was buffered,” explains John Piacentini, Ph.D., director of the CARES (Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support) Center at UCLA. “If there was a tragedy, for example, it was placed into context or experienced safely with the family. No it’s a nonstop dose, and it’s easy for kids to confuse their subjective experience of reality with reality. This can really wear kids down if you think about it from a stress perspective. (

7. Chapter 9 quiz
1. True/False: All individuals receive messages from media in the same way. 2. True/False: If the parents of a preschooler want to find a television show for their child, they should look for a TV-Y7 rating. (You may find help at 3. True/False: Print media and screen media are typically equally passive activities – consider all domains of development when answering. 4. True/False: Adolescent girls and adolescent boys use online media in very different ways. Explain your answer. 5. The influence of video game playing on children is (positive/negative/both).

8. Ratings Systems Television www.tvguidelines.org/ratings.htm Movies
Video Games
Other sources of ratings

9. Media has “good” and “bad” impacts
Fairly recent stories and trends They loved your G.P.A. then they saw your tweets. (from The New York Times, 11/9/13) MOOCS – Massive Online Open Courses; free opportunities to learn from major institutions of high education Does bullying, including online bullying, cause suicide-related behaviors? According to CDC, we need to be careful Suicidal youth are likely to have been bullied, but most youth who are bullied do not participate in suicide-related behaviors. So, bullying plus other risk factors likely lead to increased risk of suicide.