Marie Evans Schmidt and Elizabeth Vandewater review research on links between various types of electronic media and the cognitive skills of school-aged children and adolescents. One central finding of studies to date, they say, is that the content delivered by electronic media is far more influential than the media themselves. Most studies, they point out, find a small negative link between the...

omputers are now an integral part of our day-to-day regime and prevalent in all aspects of our society. Yet with all this available technology, we have only begun to scratch the surface of how we may harness the influence and power of the microprocessor. The development and use of engaging interactive electronic media which simultaneously stimulate multiple senses will revolutionize the way in ...

Asian societies have adopted electronic media in equal measure to western societies. Media use, its impacts and correlates have been examined in western and some Asian societies, but this study is unique in examining Malaysian students’ use of media. Malaysian and American college students reported their electronic media use, reading activities and patterns of multitasking with media while stud...

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are an increasingly popular source of nicotine and an increasingly popular topic in the media. Concerns about potential hazards associated with e-cigarette use and advertising, especially to adolescents, have led to studies on e-cigarettes in both traditional media (TV, mail, print, and outdoor advertising) and social media (websites, social networking sites...

As indicated by the term " emerging, " the principal challenge in following emerging diseases is their extremely dynamic epidemiology. Changes in these diseases or the pathogens causing them cannot be followed through standard texts and journals. The traditional mode of reporting an outbreak in a peer-reviewed journal several months after it occurred or in a textbook one or more years later is ...

Powering-up Electronic Media for Child Health Promotion: A Project Developed to Enhance Student Learning of Pediatric Concepts and Child Health Initiatives an educational project exploring the relationship of electronic media and child health has been developed and implemented in a pediatric nursing course at a technical college. the goal of the project is to assist students in identifying, und...

Photography and electronic media are indispensable tools for dental education and clinical practice. Although previous research has focused on privacy issues and general strategies to protect patient privacy when sharing clinical photographs for educational purposes, there are no published recommendations for developing a functional, privacy-compliant institutional framework for the capture, st...

The wearable computer that can understand the context of human life and communicate autonomously with various electronic media in a ubiquitous computing environment would be very useful as an assistant for humans. In this paper, we present a wearable computer that interacts with both humans and electronic media. The developed wearable computer can sense the interactive electronic media that a u...

In contrast to mass media, which established a kind of global public opinion, interactive media seems to support the development of Teiloeffentlichkeiten (“partial publics”), which are discourses characterised by context-specific argumentation strategies and special themes. We assume that interactive electronic media will not substitute for the traditional mass media, but will be useful for pre...