Research shows that most children and adolescents do not get enough high-quality sleep, and that their sleep times appear to have declined over the last two decades. Coinciding with this trend has been the rise in popularity of new media forms including the Internet, video games, cell phones and DVDs. Because of the immediacy and...

A national survey that examined the media use of 3rd through 12th graders in the US found that they are spending an increasing amount of time using 'new media' like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on 'old media' like television and music. The study, Generation M: Media in the Lives of...

Broadcast and cable stations donated an average of 17 seconds an hour to public service advertisements, totaling one-half of one percent of all TV airtime, according to this study. The most frequent time period for PSAs to air was between midnight and 6 a.m., accounting for 46% of donated PSAs across all stations in the...

A forum hosted by the US The Ad Council and Kaiser Family Foundation to explore how health-related and other nonprofits and government agencies can use new digital media such as social networking, user-generated content, and gaming to enhance their communications strategies. Vicky Rideout, vice president and director of Kaiser?s Program for the Study of Entertainment...

Parents say they?re gaining over their children?s exposure to sex and violence in the media. A US national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, explores how parents view the role of media in their children?s lives.