The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, 7 Volume Set

Contributors to Volume V

Notes on Contributors

Craig A. Anderson (PhD, Stanford University) is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University. He currently serves as the President of the International Society for Research on Aggression. For the last 15 years his research has focused on the psychology of human aggression, especially media violence effects. His work has had a major impact on public policy at local, state, national, and international levels.

Daniel R. Anderson (PhD, Brown University) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research and scholarship has focused on the cognitive and educational impact of children's television viewing.

Charles K. Atkin (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Chair of the Communication department at Michigan State University. He has published 160 journal articles and chapters and six books dealing with media effects on health, political, and social behavior. The Decade of Behavior consortium recognized his work with the 2006 Award for Applied Social Science Research, and he received the 2008 Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award from the ICA and NCA Health Communication Divisions, as well as the Distinguished Applied Communication Research Award from NCA in 2010.

Erica Weintraub Austin (PhD, Stanford University) is a Professor and Director of the Murrow College's Center for Media and Health Promotion, at Washington ...