Amy B. Jordan (media investigator)

Amy B. Jordan (born November 23, 1961) is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching focuses on the role of media in the lives of children and their families and the potential for communication messages to address health risk behaviors.

Amy Jordan received her M.A. (1986) and PhD. (1990) from the Annenberg School for Communication, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Muhlenberg College in 1983 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.

Publications

• Jordan, Amy B. (Dec 1992). "Social Class, Temporal Orientation, and Mass Media Use within the Family System". Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 9 (4): 374–386. doi:10.1080/15295039209366840. 
• Jordan, Amy B.; Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1998). Children and television. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science v. 557. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 
• Jordan, Amy B.; Calvert, Sandra L.; Cocking, Rodney R. (2002). Children in the Digital Age: Influences of Electronic Media on Development. Praeger Publishers. doi:10.1336/0275976521. ISBN 0-275-97652-1. 
• Jordan, Amy B. (June 2004). "The Role of Media in Children's Development: An Ecological Perspective". Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 25 (3): 196–206. doi:10.1097/00004703-200406000-00009. 

External links

• "Amy Jordan, Ph.D.". Faculty. Annenberg Public Policy Center.