SETTING RESEARCH DIRECTIONS FOR
MEDIA LITERACY AND HEALTH EDUCATION A Research Conference held April 15 -17,
2000 A two-day working conference was held in April of 2000 with
leading media education and public health researchers charged with the
task
of charting future directions for research in media education. The goal
of the conference
was to identify approaches that should be undertaken
to measure the
impact of
media literacy
interventions aimed at health threats to youth,
to stimulate descriptive evidence about the growth and nature of media
literacy education in the United States and around the world, and to begin
to more fully appreciate the complex, interdisciplinary connections between
the fields of media studies, education and public health that research
about the practice of media literacy demands and inspires.
Sponsors Johnson
& Johnson Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention:
HHS Secretary's
Initiative on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
American Academy of Pediatrics
Alliance for a Media Literate America
Journalism Resources Institute
Downloads You can also download a PDF version of this conference
report by accessing this link.
Center for Media Studies
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
to measure the
impact of
media literacy
interventions aimed at health threats to youth,
to stimulate descriptive evidence about the growth and nature of media
literacy education in the United States and around the world, and to begin
to more fully appreciate the complex, interdisciplinary connections between
the fields of media studies, education and public health that research
about the practice of media literacy demands and inspires. 
