Amy B. Jordan (media investigator)

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Amy B. Jordan (born November 23, 1961) is a research investigator at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, whose work is on the cognitive/developmental effects of media (particularly television) on very young children and the impact of public policy initiatives.

She received her M.A. and PhD. from the Annenberg School for Communication, and graduated summa cum laude from Muhlenberg College in 1983 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.

[edit] Publications

Jordan, Amy B. (Dec 1992). "Social Class, Temporal Orientation, and Mass Media Use within the Family System". Critical Studies in Mass Communication 9 (4): pp374–386.
Jordan, Amy B.; Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1998). Children and television, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science v. 557. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Jordan, Amy B.; Calvert, Sandra L., and Cocking, Rodney R. (2002). Children in the Digital Age: Influences of Electronic Media on Development. Praeger Publishers. DOI:ISBN 0-275-97652-1 10.1336/0275976521 ISBN 0-275-97652-1.
Jordan, Amy B. (June 2004). "The Role of Media in Children's Development: An Ecological Perspective". Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 25 (3): 196–206.