CHEER Research and Publications
- Jennings, N.A. (2014). Tween Girls and their Mediated Friends. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Moses, A. M., Jennings, N. A., Brod, R., Hooker, S. D., Cordell, B., & Sallee, T. (2014). The E
ffects of Literacy Messages in an Educational Television program: A Content Analysis and Experiment. NHSA Dialog: The Research to Practice Journal for the Early Childhood Field, 17(1) (online: https://journals.uncc.edu/dialog/article/view/208)
- Jennings, N. & Wartella, E. (2013). Technology and the family. In A. Vangelisti (Ed.), The handbook of family communication, 2nd Edition (pp. 448-462) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Jennings, N. A. (2013). And Now a Click from Our Sponsors: Changes in Children’s Advertising in the United States. In A. N. Valdivia (Gen. Ed.) & S. R. Mazzarella (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of media studies. Vol. 3: Content and representation (pp. 54-73). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
- Piotrowski, J. T., Jennings, N. A., & Linebarger, D. L. (2012). Extending the Lessons of Educational Television with Young American Children. Journal of Children and Media, 7(2), 216-234.
- Jennings, N., & Wartella, E. (2012). Hazards and possibilities of commercial media in the schools. In D.G. Singer & J.L. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of children and the media, 2nd Edition. (pp. 553-66). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Haas, S., Irr, M., Jennings, N., & Wagner, L. (2011). Communicating Thin: Stigma and the Co-Construction of Online Enabling Support Groups in the Pro-Anorexia Movement, New Media & Society, 13(1), 40-57.
- Seo, K. K., Curran, A., Jennings, N., & Collins, C. (2010). Creating a new mobile learning community with podcasting. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 20(1), 103-114.
- Jennings, N. A., Hooker, S. D., & Linebarger, D. L. (2009). Educational Television as Mediated Literacy Environments for Preschoolers, Learning, Media and Technology, 34(3), 229-242.
- Jennings, N. A., & Walker, B. (2009). Experiential Mediation: Making meaningful differences with the “Other Parent”, Journal of Family Communication, 9, 3-22.
- Jennings, N., & Collins, C. (2008). Virtual or virtually U: Educational institutions in Second Life, International Journal of Social Sciences, 2(3), 180-186.
- Collins, C., & Jennings, N. (2007). Emerging “Best Practices” for Campus Builds in Second Life. In D. Livingston and J. Kemp (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop 2007: Part of the Second Life Community Convention 2007, (pp. 78-81).
- Stout, P. A., Staiger, J., & Jennings, N. A. (2007). Affective Stories: Understanding the Lack of Progress of Women Faculty, NWSA Journal, 19(3), 124-144.
- Jennings, N. (2007). Advertising, Viewer age and. In J. J. Arnett (Ed.) Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media, (pp. 55-56). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Jennings, N. (2007). Advertising, Deceptive practices in. In J. J. Arnett (Ed.) Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media, (pp. 21-23). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Jennings, N. (2007). Advertising and consumer development: In the driver’s seat or being taken for a ride? In S. R. Mazzarella (Ed.), 20 questions about youth and the media, (pp. 103-116). New York: Peter Lang.
- Jennings, N. A., & Wartella, E.A. (2007). Advertising and consumer development. In N. Pecora, J. P. Murray, and E. A. Wartella (Eds.), Children and television: 50 Years of research, (pp. 149-182). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Pike, J., & Jennings, N. (2005). The effects of commercials on children’s perceptions of gender appropriate toy use. Sex Roles, (52), 83-91.
- Stout, P. A., Villegas, J., & Jennings, N. (2004). Images of mental illness in the media: Identifying gaps in the research. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30(3), 543-561.
- Jennings, N. & Wartella, E. (2004). Technology and the family. In A. Vangelisti (Ed.), The handbook of family communication, (pp. 593-608). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Jennings, N. (2002). Advertising, branding, and consuming – The ABC’s of marketing in American schools. In F. Hansen, J. Rasmussen, A. Martensen, & L.B. Christensen (Eds.), Children – Consumption, advertising, and media, (pp. 283-298). Denmark: Samfundslitteratur.
- Wartella, E., & Jennings. N. (2001). The role of computers in children’s lives. The Future of children: Children and computer technology, 10(2), 31-43.
- Wartella, E., & Jennings, N. (2001). New members of the family: The digital revolution in the home. Journal of family communication, 1(1), 59-69.
- Wartella, E., & Jennings, N. (2001). Hazards and possibilities of commercial TV in the schools. In D.G. Singer & J.L. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of children and the media, (pp. 557-570). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Wartella, E., Olivarez, A., & Jennings, N. (1998). Children and television violence in the United States. In U. Carlsson & C. von Feilitzen (Eds.), Children and media violence, (pp. 55-62). Kungälv, Sweden: Livréna Grafiska AB.
- Reprinted as Wartella,E., Olivarez, A., & Jennings, N. (2002). In D. McQuail (Ed.), McQuail's reader in mass communication theory, (pp. 398-405). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Whitney, C., Wartella, E., Lasorsa, D., Danielson, W., Olivarez, A., Jennings, N., & Lopez, R. (1998). Television violence in “reality” (non-fictional) programming: University of Texas at Austin Study. In Center for Communication and Social Policy (Ed.), National television violence study, Volume 3, (pp. 221-284). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Wartella, E., Whitney, C., Lasorsa, D., Danielson, W., Olivarez, A., Lopez, R., Jennings, N. & Klijn, M. (1998). Television violence in “reality” programming: University of Texas at Austin Study. In Center for Communication and Social Policy (Ed.), National television violence study, Volume 2, (pp. 205-266). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.