title: Adolescents' sexual media diets.
abstract: A model of how adolescents choose, interpret, and interact with the mass media is discussed in the context of sexual development. The Media Practice Model suggests that adolescents select and react to sexual media diets that speak to an emerging sense of themselves as sexual human beings. Relatively little is known about how the sexual content adolescents attend to in the media is interpreted or incorporated into their lives. Entertainment-education and media literacy are two strategies for increasing the possibility of healthy outcomes from adolescents' use of sexual media.
authors.affiliation: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3365, USA. jane_brown@unc.edu
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media / Q000592:standards*; D012736:Sex Education / Q000379:methods; D019529:Sexuality; D014481:United States