Teens, Sex, and Media Effects

""In the last twenty years, our media landscape and our sexual cultures have significantly evolved beyond legacy screens and gender binaries. Hust, Willoughby, and Ortiz have composed a thoughtful and timely volume that recognizes that evolution and modernizes our understanding of both media and sex. The volume is organized with intent, providing deliberate and detailed introductions and commentaries for each section of the text to guide the reader. With a focus on sexual identity, effects of exposure, and teens as content creators, Teens, Sex, and Media Effects: Understanding Media’s Influence on Adolescent Sexuality, Sexual Health, and Advocacy recognizes the established literature while pushing the needle forward in a meaningful way. This volume is sure to be a meaningful resource for scholars, parents, and policy makers alike."" Bradley J. Bond, University of San Diego, USA ""This book is a must-read for anyone working in the areas of media studies and adolescent health, advocacy, and education. The book covers a comprehensive array of topics and focuses on research that has been conducted in the last decade. Strengths of the book are the inclusion of contributors from a wide range of disciplines and countries and the focus on research that gives precedence to the voices of adolescents themselves."" Cynthia A. Graham, Indiana University Bloomington, USA ""In Teens, Sex, and Media Effects: Understanding Media’s Influence on Adolescent Sexuality, Sexual Health, and Advocacy, editors Stacey J.T. Hust, Jessica Fitts Willoughby, and Rebecca Ortiz curate a collection of meticulously designed studies by the leading scholars in the field of youth, media and sexuality. This comprehensive, contemporary, and international collection is destined to set the 21st century standard for understanding young people’s relationship to sexual content in today’s multi-platform media landscape."" Sharon R. Mazzarella, James Madison University, USA ""Hust, Willoughby, and Ortiz offer tremendous breadth and thoughtful insights that could be informative for diverse readers, including media scholars, students (both graduate and undergraduate), stakeholders, parents, and adolescents, themselves. Via short and well-written chapters, this volume offers an updated take on media use, incorporating the increased access to media content via private devices, the increased personalization of our media diets, and the changing and more active nature of the media consumer. I think this work does an excellent job of reflecting the real-life contexts of today’s teens."" L. Monique Ward, University of Michigan, USA