Faculty research profiles
Kim B. Walsh-Childers
Summary
Dr. Walsh-Childers primary research interests are in 1) how media, particularly news media, communicate health information to the public; 2) how the public uses news media information about health, including Internet-based information, to make health decisions; 3) how news coverage of health issues influences public health policy development; 4) how exposure to media content influences adolescent health behaviors. She also has a long-standing interest in the challenges women journalists face and how they respond to those challenges.
Recent publications
Books, edited:
Sexual Teens, Sexual Media (2002). Jane Brown, Jeanne Steele and Kim Walsh-Childers, (Eds.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers.
Journal Articles:
J. Robyn Goodman & Kim Walsh-Childers (in press). We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust: How College Women Negotiate the Media's Ideal Breast Image. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Keywords
Health journalism, science journalism, newspapers, magazines, mass media and adolescent health, media and public health, health policy, content analysis, mass communication, mass media, print media, journalism ethics, media ethics
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