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JANE DELANO BROWN
James L. Knight Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
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Office:
360 Carroll Hall CB#3365
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365
919-962-4089 (O)
919-962-0620 (F)
Jane_Brown@unc.edu
EDUCATION
1978 Ph.D., Mass Communication Research, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation: Adolescent Decision-making: The Effect of Sex
Roles and Interpersonal Communication Norms on Occupational
Choice
1974 M.A., Mass Communication Research, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis: The Role of Communication in the Development of a Sex
Role Orientation
1972 B.A., Journalism, University of Kentucky-Lexington
ACADEMIC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1977 Instructor, Institute of Gerontology and the Department of Journalism,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1977-83 Assistant professor of journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1983-88 Associate professor of journalism, UNC-CH
1987 (Summer) Visiting professor, School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1987-1988 Fellow, Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University
1988 (Feb.) Scholar in residence at Rutgers University, School of Communication,
Information and Library Sciences
1997 (Fall) Fellow at the UNC-CH Institute for the Arts and Humanities
1997-‘98 (Spring) W.N. Reynolds Leave
2001-‘04, ‘05-‘07 Associate director, Academic Leadership Program,
UNC-CH Institute for the Arts and Humanities
2003 (Aug.) Coordinator, Mass Communication Seminar, National Communication Assoc.
Doctoral Honors Conference, Northwestern University
2004-present Fellow, UNC-CH Carolina Population Center
2004-present Member, UNC-CH Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity Research

MEDIA-RELATED
1969-1972 Reporter, managing editor, The Kentucky Kernel, Univ. of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY
1972-1973 Reporter, photographer, The Havre de Grace (MD) Record,
(Summers) Havre de Grace, MD
1980 Opinion poll specialist: The Detroit News Election ‘80 News Team,
Detroit, MI
HONORS
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• C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award, UNC-CH, 2011
• Celebrate Women Award, Triangle United Way Women’s Leadership Council for Orange County, 2008
• Faculty to Faculty Mentoring Award, UNC-CH, 2008
• Muriel Easterling Volunteer Award, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina, 2007
• Faculty Service Award, UNC-CH General Alumni Association, 2006
• Harold L. Nelson Award for Research in Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
• Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award for service to the university, UNC-CH, March 2002
• Order of the Golden Fleece, honors society, UNC-CH, inducted March 1999
• Outstanding Faculty/Staff Woman Award, Women’s Issues Network and the Carolina
Women’s Center, 1999
• Mary Turner Lane Award, Association for Women Faculty and Professionals, UNC-CH, 1996
• Honorary Member of the UNC-CH Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society,
inducted November 1996
• David Brinkley Teaching Excellence Award, UNC-CH School of Journalism and
Mass Communication, 1992
• Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Mass Communication (AEJMC), 1988
• Honorary member of the Order of the Valkyries, undergraduate women's honorary society, UNC-CH,
inducted May 1982
• Phi Kappa Phi, national honors society
• Listed in Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century
Who's Who in the South and Southeast
Who's Who in the Media and Communication
BOOKS
PUBLICATIONS
1. Associate Editor (2006). Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. J.J. Arnett (Ed.). San
Francisco: Sage Publications. (authored six entries)
2. Brown, J. D., Steele, J.R., & Walsh-Childers, K. (Eds.). (2002). Sexual Teens, Sexual Media:
Investigating Media’s Influence on Adolescent Sexuality. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 308 pp.
3. Co-author (1996-1998). National Television Violence Study (Vols. 1-3). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
4. Greenberg, B.S., Brown, J.D., & Buerkel-Rothfuss, N. (1992). Media, Sex and the Adolescent. Cresskill,
NJ: Hampton Press. 384 pp.
5. Rubinstein, E., & Brown, J.D. (Eds.). (1985). The Media, Social Science and Social Policy for Children.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. 240 pp.

BOOK CHAPTERS
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1. Shafer, A.S., Bobkowski, P.S., & Brown, J.D. (in press). “Sexual media practice: How adolescents
select, engage with, and are affected by sexual media.” In Dill, K. (Ed.)Oxford Handbook of Media
Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Brown, J.D. & Lu, A. S. (2009). Mass media effects on young people’s sexual health. In Ma, R.
(Ed.) Health Communication and Public Health (pp. 47-64 in Chinese; pp. 179-192 in English). Hong
Kong: Hong Kong Educational Publishing Company.
3. Brown, J.D. (2009). Media and sexuality. In R. Nabi & M. B. Oliver (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of
Mass Media Effects (pp. 409-422). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
4. Walsh-Childers, K. & Brown, J.D. (2009). Effects of media on personal and public health. In J.
Bryant & M.B. Oliver (Eds.) Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research (3rd Ed.) (pp. 469-489). New
York: Routledge.
5. Hust, S.J. & Brown, J.D. (2008). Gender, media use and effects. In S.L. Calvert & B.J. Wilson
(Eds.). The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development (pp. 98-120). Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishing.
6. Stern, S. & Brown, J.D. (2008). From twin beds to sex at your fingertips: Teen sexuality in movies,
music, television and the Internet. In P. Jamieson & D. Romer (Eds.). The Changing Portrayal of
Adolescents in the Media Since 1950 (pp. 313-346). NY: Oxford University Press.
7. Brown, J.D., & Strasburger, V.C. (2007). From Calvin Klein, to Paris Hilton and MySpace:
Adolescents, sex & the media. In M. Blythe & S. Rosenthal (Eds.) Adolescent Sexuality, Adolescent
Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 18(3): 484-507.
8. Pardun, C.J., Brown, J.D., & Kachgal, T. (2007). How big is their world? U.S. adolescents’ news
media consumption. In A. Schorr & S. Seltmann (Eds.), Changing Media Cultures in Europe and Abroad.
Research on New Ways of Handling Information and Entertainment Content. Pabst Science Publishers.
9. Brown, J.D. (2006). Emerging adults in a mediated world. In J.J. Arnett and J.L. Tanner (Eds.)
Coming of Age in the 21 st Century: The Lives and Contexts of Emerging Adults (pp. 279-299). NY: American
Psychological Association.
10. Brown, J.D., Schaffer, R., Vargas, L., & Romocki, S. (2003). Popular media culture and the promise
of critical media literacy. In S.F. Hamilton & M.A. Hamilton (Eds.), Handbook of Youth Development
(pp. 239-267). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
11. Brown, J.D. & Stern, S.R. (2002). Mass media and adolescent female sexuality. In G. Wingood and
R. DiClemente (Eds.), Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health, (pp. 93-112). New York:
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
12. Brown, J.D., & Walsh-Childers, K. (2002). Effects of media on personal and public health. In J.
Bryant and D. Zillmann (Eds.) Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research (2 nd Ed.), (pp. 453-488).
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
13. Brown, J.D. & Witherspoon, E. (2001). The mass media and the health of adolescents in the
United States. In Yahya R. Kamalipour and Kuldip R. Rampal (Eds.) Media, Sex, Violence and Drugs in
the Global Village (pp. 77-96). Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
14. Bernhardt, J.M., & Brown, J.D.(1998). Testing the effectiveness of public service announcements
that depict immediate physical consequences of handgun violence: University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill study. In Center for Communication and Social Policy, University of California, Santa
Barbara (Ed.) National Television Violence Study Vol. 3 (pp. 323-353). Thousand Oaks: Sage
Publications.
15. Knight, M.G., Kemp, K., Brown, J.D., & Biocca, F. (1998). Stop the violence: Lessons from antiviolence
campaigns using mass media. In J. Hamilton (Ed.), Television Violence and Public Policy. Ann
Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

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16. Biocca, F., Brown, J.D., Makris, G., Bernhardt, J.M., & Gaddy, G. (1998). Improving anti-violence
public service announcements through systematic analysis and design: University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill study. In Center for Communication and Social Policy, University of California, Santa
Barbara (Ed.) National Television Violence Study Vol. 2 (pp. 323-402). Thousand Oaks: Sage
Publications.
17. Biocca, F., Brown, J.D., Shen, F., Bernhardt, J.M., Batista, L., Kemp, K., Makris, G., West, M., Lee,
J., Straker, H., Hsiao, H,. & Carbone, E. (1997). Assessment of television's anti-violence messages:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Study. National Television Violence Study Vol. 1(pp. 413-530).
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
18. Brown, J.D., & Steele, J.R. (1996). Sex and the mass media. Sexuality and American Social Policy: A
Seminar Series (pp. 1-37). Menlo, CA: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
19. Brown, J.D., & McDonald, T. (1995). Portrayals and effects of alcohol in television entertainment
programming. In S.E. Martin (Ed.), The Effects of the Mass Media on the Use and Abuse of Alcohol .
Research Monograph 28 (pp. 133-150). Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
20. Brown, J.D., & Childers, K. W. (1994). Effects of media on personal and public health. In J. Bryant
and D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research. (pp. 389-415). Hillsdale, N.J.: L.
Erlbaum Assoc.
21. Schulze, L., White, A.B., & Brown, J.D. (1992). A sacred monster in her prime: Audience
construction of Madonna as low-other. In C. Schwichtenberg (Ed.), The Madonna Connection:
Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities, and Cultural Theory (pp. 15-37). Boulder, CO: Westview
Press.
22. Brown, J.D., & Newcomer, S.F. (1991). Television viewing and adolescents' sexual behavior. In
M.A. Wolf & A.P. Kielwasser (Eds.),Gay People, Sex, and the Media. (pp. 77-92). New York: Haworth
Press.
23. Brown, J.D., Waszak, C., & Childers, K.W. (1989). Family planning, abortion and AIDS: Sexuality
and communication campaigns. In C.T. Salmon (Ed.), Information Campaigns: Balancing Social Values
and Social Change (pp. 85-112). Beverly Hills: Sage, 1989.
24. Brown, J.D., & Eiensiedel, E. (1989). Public health campaigns: Mass media strategies. In E.B. Ray
& L. Donohew (Eds.),Communication and Health Systems and Applications (pp. 153-170). Hillsdale, NJ:
L. Erlbaum Associates.
25. Brown, J.D. (1981). Adolescent peer group communication, sex-role norms and decisions about
occupations. In D. Nimmo (Ed.), Communication Yearbook IV (pp. 375-385). New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Books.
26. Faber, R., Brown, J.D. & McLeod, J. (1979). Coming of age in the global village: Television and
adolescence. In E. Wartella (Ed.),Children communicating: Media and development of thought, speech,
understanding. (pp. 215-250). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. (Reprinted in Inter/Media:
Interpersonal Communication in a media world, G. Gumpert & R. Cathcart (eds.) New York: Oxford
University Press, 1982, 1986.
27. McLeod, J., & Brown, J.D. (1976). The family environment and adolescent television use. In R.
Brown (Ed.), Children and television. (pp. 199-233). London: Casswell and Collier Macmillan.
SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNAL
Brown, J.D. & Cantor, J. R. (guest editors) (2000). The mass media and adolescents’ health. Journal of
Adolescent Health. 27(2) (Supplement).
Brown, J.D. (2000). Adolescents’ sexual media diets. Journal of Adolescent Health,
27(2) (Supplement), 35-40.
Brown, J.D. & Cantor, J. R. (2000). An agenda for research on youth and the media. Journal of Adolescent
Health, 27(2) (Supplement), 2-7.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)
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1. Bobkowski, P.S., Brown, J. D., & Neffa, D. R. (in press). “Hit me up and we can get down” U.S.
youths’ risk behaviors and sexual self-disclosure in MySpace profiles. Journal of Children and Media.
2. Brown, J.D. & Bobkowski, P. (2011). Older and newer media: Patterns of use and effects on
adolescents’ health and well-being. Journal of Research on Adolescence – A Decade Review, 21(1): 95-113.
3. Li, J., Quinn, J., Rico, C.L., Noguera, A.C., Silbajoris, C., Brown, J.D., & McDuffee, D. (2010).
Developing a health care intermediary-delivered intervention to promote an online health
information resource: Results from formative research. Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet, 14(4):
369-381.
4. Parvanta, S. A., Brown, J.D., Du, S., Zimmer, C.R., Zhao, X., & Zhai, F. (2010). Television use and
snacking behaviors among children and adolescents in China. Journal of Adolescent Health, 46: 339-345.
5. An, S., Jin, H.S., & Brown, J.D. (2009). Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) antidepressant ads and young
adults’ beliefs about depression. Health Marketing Quarterly, 26: 259-268.
6. Brown, J.D. & L’Engle, K. L. (2009). X-Rated: Sexual attitudes and behaviors associated with U.S. early
adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit media. Communication Research, 36(1): 129-151.
7. Jackson, C., Brown, J.D., & Pardun, C.J. (2008). A TV in the bedroom: Implications for viewing habits
and risk behaviors during early adolescence. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 52(3), 349-367.
8. Brown, J.D., & Peuchaud, S.R. (2008). Media and breastfeeding: Friend or foe? International Breastfeeding
Journal, 3:15.
9. Windle, M., Spear, L.P., Fuligni, A.J., Angold, A., Brown, J.D., Pine, D., Smith, G.T. (2008).
Transitions into underage drinking and problem drinking: Developmental processes and mechanisms
between ages 10-15. Pediatrics, 121: S273-S289.
10. Carpentier, F.R.D., Brown, J. D., Bertocci, M., Silk, J. S., Forbes, E. E., & Dahl, R. E. (2008). Sad kids,
Sad media? Applying mood management theory to depressed adolescents' use of media', Media
Psychology, 11:1, 143-166.
11. Ito, K. E., Kalyanaraman, S., Ford, C.A., Brown, J.D., Miller, W.C. (2008). “Let’s talk about sex:” Pilot
study of an interactive CD-ROM to prevent HIV/STIs in female adolescents. AIDS Education and
Prevention, 20(1), 78-89.
12. Hust, S., Brown, J.D., & L’Engle, K. (2008). Boys will be boys and girls better be prepared: An analysis
of the rare sexual health messages in young adolescents’ media. Mass Communication and Society, 11:1-
21.
13. Jackson, C., Brown, J.D., & L’Engle, K. (2007). R-rated movies, bedroom televisions, and initiation of
smoking by white and black adolescents. Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, 161:260-268.
14. Kaestle, C.E., Halpern, C.T., & Brown, J.D. (2007). Music videos, pro wrestling, and acceptance of date
rape among middle school males and females: An exploratory analysis. Journal of Adolescent Health,
40:185-187.
15. Geary, C.W., Burke, H.M, Neupane, S., Castelnau, L., & Brown, J.D. (2006). Does MTV reach an
appropriate audience for HIV prevention messages? Evidence from MTV viewership data in Nepal
and Brazil. Journal of Health Communication, 11(7):665-81.
16. L’Engle, K. L., Jackson, C., & Brown, J.D. (2006). Early adolescents’ cognitive susceptibility to
initiating sexual intercourse. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 38(2): 97-105.
17. Brown, J.D., L’Engle, K. L., Pardun, C.J., Guo, G., Kenneavy, K., & Jackson, C. (2006). Sexy media
matter: Exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television and magazines predicts Black and
White Adolescents’ sexual behavior. Pediatrics, 117:1018-1027.
18. L’Engle, K., Brown, J.D., & Kenneavy, K. (2006). Mass media are an important context for
adolescents’ sexual behavior. Journal of Adolescent Health, 38(2): 186-192.
19. Brown, J.D., Halpern, C.T., & L’Engle, K.L. (2005). Mass media as a sexual super peer for early
maturing girls. Journal of Adolescent Health, 36(5), 420-427.
20. Pardun, C.J., L’Engle, K., & Brown, J.D. (2005). Linking exposure to outcomes: Early adolescents’
consumption of sexual content in six media. Mass Communication and Society, 8(2), 75-91.

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21. Brown, J.D., & Pardun, C.J. (2004). Little in common: Racial and gender differences in adolescents’ TV
diets. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 48(2), 266-278.
22. L’Engle, K.L., Pardun, C.J., & Brown, J.D. (2004). Accessing adolescents: A school-recruited homebased
approach to conducting media and health research. Journal of Early Adolescence, 24(2), 144-158.
23. Pickle, K., Quinn, S.C., & Brown, J.D. (2002). HIV/AIDS coverage in black newspapers, 1991-1996:
Implications for health communication and health education. Journal of Health Communication, 7(5),
427-444.
24. Brown, J.D. & Witherspoon, E.M. (2002). The mass media and American adolescents’ health. Journal of
Adolescent Health, 31(6) (Supplement), 153-170.
25. Brown, J.D. (2002). Mass media influences on sexuality. Journal of Sex Research, 39(1), 42-45.
26. Brown, J.D. (2002). Doing relevant, funded mass media research. Journal of Applied Communication
Research, 30(4), 334-340.
27. Bernhardt, J.M., Sorenson, J.R., & Brown, J.D. (2001). When the perpetrator gets killed: Effects of
observing the death of a handgun user in a televised public service announcement. Health Education
& Behavior, 28(1), 81-94.
28. Brown, J.D. & Keller, S.N. (2000, September/October). Can the mass media be healthy sex educators?
Family Planning Perspectives, 32(5), 255-256. New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute.
29. Steele, J.R., & Brown, J.D. (1995). Adolescent room culture: Studying media in the context of everyday
life. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24(5), 551-57.
30. Brown, J.D., Dykers, C.R., Steele, J.R., & White, A.B. (1994). Teenage room culture: Where media and
identities intersect. Communication Research, 21(6), 813-827.
31. Brown, J.D., Greenberg, B.S., & Buerkel-Rothfuss, N.L. (1993). Mass media, sex and sexuality. In V.
Strasburger & G. Comstock, (Eds.), Adolescents and the Media, 4(3), 511-525.
32. Klein, J.D., Brown, J.D., Childers, K.W., Oliveri, J., Porter, C., & Dykers, C. (1993). Adolescents’ risky
behavior and mass media use. Pediatrics, 92(1), 24-31.
33. Bauman, K.E., LaPrelle, J., Brown, J.D., Koch, G.G., & Padgett, C.A. (1991). The influence of three
mass media campaigns on variables related to adolescent cigarette smoking: Results of a field
experiment. American Journal of Public Health, 81(5), 597-604.
34. Brown, J.D., & Newcomer, S. (1991). Influences of television and peers on adolescents' sexual
behavior. Journal of Homosexuality, 21(1), 77-91.
35. Brown, J.D., & Schulze, L. (1990). The effects of race, gender, and fandom on audience interpretations
of Madonna's music videos. Journal of Communication, 40(2), 88-102. [Reprinted by Continuum
Publishing Group in The Madonna Reader: A Decade of Debate on the Diva and by HarperCollins College
Publishers as part of a reader to accompany Society in Focus: The Essentials.]
36. Brown, J.D., Walsh Childers, K., Bauman, K.E., & Koch, G.G. (1990). The influence of new media
and family structure on young adolescents' television and radio use. Communication Research, 17(1),
65-82.
37. Brown, J.D., Bauman, K.E., & Padgett, C.A. (1990). A validity problem in measuring exposure to mass
media campaigns. Health Education Quarterly, 17(3), 299-306.
38. Brown, J.D., Childers, K.W., & Waszak, C. (1990). Television and adolescent sexuality. Journal of
Adolescent Health Care, 11, 62-70. [Reprinted by the Gannett Center for Media Studies, Coumbia
University, and as part of a videodisc series on Teenage Sexuality produced by ABC News, 1990.]
39. Bauman, K.E., Brown, J.D., Bryan, E.S., Fisher, L.A., Padgett, C., & Sweeney, J.M. (1988). Three mass
media campaigns to prevent adolescent cigarette smoking. Preventive Medicine, 17, 510-530.
40. Brown, J.D., Bybee, C.R., Wearden, S.T., & Murdock, D. (1987). Invisible power: News sources and
the limits of diversity. Journalism Quarterly, 64(1), 45-54.
41. Brown, J.D., Campbell, K., & Fisher, L. (1986). American adolescents and music videos: Why do they
watch? Gazette, 37, 19-32.
42. Brown, J.D., & Campbell, K. (1986). Race and gender in music videos: The same beat but a different
drummer. Journal of Communication, 36(1), 94-106.
43. Perloff, R., Brown, J.D., & Miller, M. (1982). Mass media and sex-typing: Research perspectives and
policy implications. International Journal of Women's Studies, 5(3), 265-273.

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44. Cohen, M., Brown, J.D., & Clark, S. (1981). Canadian public television and preschool children.
Predictors of viewers and nonviewers. Communication Research, 8(2), 205-232.
45. Brown, J.D. (1980). Real eye-opener: Writing reports on the reporter. Journalism Educator, 34(4), 9-11.
46. McLeod, J., Brown, J.D., & Becker, L. (1977). The effects of Watergate on political attitudes and
behaviors during the 1974 Congressional elections. Public Opinion Quarterly, 41(2), 181-195.
47. McLeod, J., Becker, L., Brown, J.D., & Ziemke, D. (1977). Decline and fall at the White House: A
longitudinal analysis of communication effects. Communication Research, 4(1), 3-22.
COMMISSIONED PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY
� Brown, J.D. (2011). Adolescents’ sexual health matters: Texas should get on board. (Comment) Journal of
Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, 2(2).
� Brown, J.D. (2011). The media do matter: Comment on Steinberg and Monahan (2011). Developmental
Psychology, 47(2), 580-581.
� Sullentrop, K., Brown, J.D., & Ortiz, R. (2010, October). Science Says #45: Evaluating the Impact of MTV’s
“16 and Pregnant” on Teen Viewers’ Attitudes About Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: The National Campaign
to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
� Ito, K.E., & Brown, J.D. (2010). To friend or not to friend: Using new media for adolescent health
promotion. North Carolina Medical Journal, 71(4): 367-372.
� Brown, J.D. (Ed.). (2008). Managing the Media Monster: The Influence of Media (from Television to Text Messages)
on Teen Sexual Behavior and Attitudes (128 pp.). Washington, D.C.: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen
and Unplanned Pregnancy.
� Brown, J.D. (2007, March). The media as powerful teen sex educators. Extended abstract commissioned for and
presented to the “What’s it going to take? Extending the Research Base to Improve Teen Pregnancy
Prevention” conference, co-sponsored by the National Institute for Child Health and Human
Development, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and the National Centers for Disease
Control,, Washington, D.C.
� Review of CDC’s Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Portfolio (2006, Oct. 5-6), Expert panel
member, Atlanta, GA.
� Parents of Adolescents: Developing Parenting Skills (2005, November). Expert consultation, U.S. Office on
Women’s Health, Washington, DC.
� White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (2005, April). Expert consultation on strategies for reaching
parents, Washington, DC.
� Stigma, Mental Illness, and the Media (2002, July). Expert consultation sponsored by the National Institute of
Mental Health, Washington, DC.
� White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Media Literacy Summit. (2001, June 1). Invited participant.
Washington, DC.
� Workshop on Non-technical Strategies to Protect Youth from Inappropriate Material on the Internet. (2000, Dec. 13).
Invited testimony before the Committee on the Study of Tools and Strategies for Protecting Children
from Pornography on the Internet and their Applicability to other Inappropriate Internet Content.
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Board on Children, Youth, and Families; National
Research Council/ Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
� Brown, J.D. (1998, September). The Media and American Adolescents’ Health. Commissioned paper
presented at Healthy Futures of Youth II: Pathways to Adolescent Health, Annapolis, Maryland.
� Government and Television: Improving Programming Without Censorship. (1997, May 8). U.S. Senate hearing
panelist, Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District
of Columbia, Washington, DC.
� Brown, J.D. & Steele, J.R. (1995). Sex, pregnancy and the mass media, a commissioned background paper for
the National Academy of Sciences report: The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of
Children and Families. S. S. Brown & L. Eisenberg (Eds.), Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

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� Brown, J.D. & Steele, J.R. (1995, September). Sex and the Mass Media. Report commissioned by the Kaiser
Family Foundation.
� Brown, J.D. (1992, April). Room culture as formative research. Invited paper presented at the Health
Communication Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
� Brown, J.D. & McDonald, T. (1992, September), Portrayals and effects of alcohol in TV entertainment
programming. Invited paper presented at the meeting of the Working Group on the Effects of the Mass
Media on the Use and Abuse of Alcohol, NIAAA, Washington, DC.
� Brown, J.D. (1991, July). Making sense of mixed messages: The active youth audience. Invited paper presented at
the Office on Substance Abuse Prevention Issue Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
� Brown, J.D., & Walsh Childers, K. (1990). The potential of mass media campaigns to promote risk reduction among
black youth, (Contract No. 200-88-0643). Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute.
� Brown, J.D., & Walsh Childers, K. (1990). Literature reviews on the behavior of youth. (Contract No. 200-88-
0643). Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute.
� Newcomer, S., & Brown, J.D. (1990). Parent, peer and media support for adolescent sexual behavior. Final report
to Office of Population Affairs Grant # APR 000914-01-0.
� Brown, J.D., & Reuss, C. (1980, September 15). Reader interest in business, sports and foreign news.
ANPA News Research Report, 28.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
� Brown, J.D. & Bobkowski, P.S. (2011). Media, influence of. In: B. B. Brown & M. J. Prinstein (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Adolescence (pp. 189-195), Vol. 2. San Diego: Academic Press.
� Brown, J.D., Keller, S., & Stern, S. (2009). Sex, sexuality, sexting, and sexed: Adolescents and the media.
The Prevention Researcher, 16(4), 12-16.
� Brown, J.D. & Stern, S.R. (2002). Sex and the media. In J. R. Schement (Ed.), Encyclopedia of communication
and information (pp. 923 - 929). New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
� Brown, J.D. (1999, Spring). Adolescents and the media. Society for Research on Adolescence Newsletter. Ann
Arbor: SRA, University of Michigan.
� Brown, J.D., & Steele, J.R. (1996, April/May). Sexuality and the mass media: An overview. SIECUS
Report, 3-9.
� Contributing author to Music at the Margins: Popular Music and Cultural Diversity. (1991). In D.C. Robinson,
E.B. Buck, & M. Cuthbert (Eds.), Beverly Hills: Sage.
� Walsh Childers, K., & Brown, J.D. (1989). No blank slate: Teen media awareness mirrors upbringing.
Media Values, 46, 8-10.
� Brown, J.D. (1987, Fall). Sex in the media. Planned Parenthood Review. New York: Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, 4-7. Reprinted in The Impact of the Mass Media, R.E. Hiebert & C. Reuss (Eds.),
Fall 1987.
� Brown, J.D. (1986, Summer). Does the media environment affect young people's behavior? UNC
researchers are beginning to find out. Carolina Family, 3.
� Brown, J.D. (1986, April 25). Rock video and your child. The Charlotte Observer, p. 15A.
� Brown, J.D. (1985, May). New ideas, new directions—AEJMC's challenge. AEJMC News.
� Brown, J.D. (1985). Race and gender in rock video, Social Science Newsletter, University of North Carolina
Institute for Research in Social Science, 70(2), 82-86.
� Brown, J.D., (1984, November). Town of Nags Head 1984 land use survey. Center for Research in Journalism
and Mass Communication.
� The elderly: Myths, masks and the media. (1978). A 45-minute slide-tape show scripted by J.D. Brown and
illustrated by the UNC Media Center. Presented to AEJMC meetings in 1978 in Seattle, WA; at the
Gerontological Society meetings in Washington, DC in 1979 and numerous other groups in North
Carolina.

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� Brown, J.D., Haas, S., & Stevens, J. (1978).Writing about the elderly: Facts, sources and background material for the
journalist. Ann Arbor, MI: Institute of Gerontology and Howard R. Marsh Center for the Study of
Journalistic Performance, 20 pp.
BOOK REVIEWS
� Brown, J.D. (1993, Spring). Teaching Mass Communication: A Guide to Better Instruction. M.D. Murray & A.J.
Ferri (Eds.) Journalism Educator.
� Brown, J.D. (1993). Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Experience. A.L.
Press. Journalism Quarterly, 70(1).
� Brown, J.D. (1990). Political Culture and Public Opinion. A.A. Berger (Ed.), Journalism Quarterly, 67(3), 621-22.
� Brown, J.D. (1988). Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book or Article. H. Becker.
Journalism Quarterly, 64(4), 885-6.
� Brown, J.D. (1983). Positive Images: Breaking Stereotypes with Children's Television. J.S. Johnston & J.S. Ettema
(Eds.), Journalism Quarterly, 60(1), 175-176.
� Brown, J.D. (1981). Persuasion: New Directions in Theory and Research. M.E. Roloff and G.R. Miller (Eds.),
Journalism Quarterly, 58(1), 136-137.
� Brown, J.D. (1979). Women and the News. L.K. Epstein (Ed.), Journalism Quarterly, 56(3), 658-659.
� Brown, J.D. (1977). How Children Learn to Buy: The Development of Consumer Information-Processing Skills. S.
Ward, D. Wackman & E. Wartella (Eds.), Journalism Quarterly , 54(4), 799-800.

REFEREED RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS
(PAST FIVE YEARS)
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� Shafer, A., Ortiz, R., Scull, T. M., Kupersmidt, J.B., & Brown, J.D. (2011, April). At-risk adolescents' media
diets and outcome expectancies influence intentions to refrain from sex and to avoid pregnancy. Paper presented at the
Society for Research in Child Development conference, Montreal, Canada.
� Ortiz, R., Scull, T., Brown, J.D., Shafer, A., Kupersmidt, J., & Suellentrop, K. (2011, May). 16 and pregnant:
The effects of watching and discussing a reality television drama about the consequences of teen pregnancy. Paper presented
in the Health Communication Division, International Communication Association conference, Boston,
MA.
� Brown, J.D., Zhao, X., Wang, M.N., Liu, Q., Lu, A. S., Li, L.J., Ortiz, R., Liao, S., & Zhang, G. (2010,
June). Love is all you need: A content analysis of romantic love and sex in Chinese entertainment television. Paper
presented at the ICA conference, Singapore.
� El-Toukhy, S. & Brown, J.D. (2010, June). Cultivating romantic fantasies? Exposure to Western television and
perceptions of romantic relationships in Egypt. Paper presented at the ICA conference, Singapore.
� Bobkowski, P., Brown, J.D., & Neffa, D. (2010, March). Hit me up and we can get down. Youth sexual histories
and sexual disclosure in online networking profiles. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence
(SRA) conference, Philadelphia, PA.
� Ford, C. & Brown, J.D. (2010, April). State-wide efforts to translate research into practice, programs, & policy:
Lessons from the NC Metamorphosis Project. Workshop presented at the Society for Adolescent Health and
Medicine (SAHM) conference, Toronto, Canada.
� Cates, J.R., Lu, S., Morrison, L., Peuchaud, S., & Brown, J.D. (2008, August). CDC’s report on high rates of
STIs in teens: How newspapers and wire services responded. Paper presented at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media, Atlanta, GA.
� L’Engle, K.L., Brown, J.D., Romocki, L.S., & Kenneavy, K. (2007, May). Adolescents’ sexual self-concepts and
media use patterns: Implications for sexual health communication. Paper presented at ICA conference, San
Francisco, CA. (Top-three paper award, Health Communication Division).
� L’Engle, K.L., Brown, J.D., Kenneavy, K. (2006, April). The sexual self-concept of middle adolescents. Paper
presented at the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) conference, San Francisco, CA.
� Brown, J.D., Pardun, C.J., & L’Engle, K.L. (2006, April). It’s getting hot in here! Adolescents’ music use and sexual
behavior. Paper presented at the SRCD conference, San Francisco.
INVITED RESEARCH-BASED PRESENTATIONS
(PAST FIVE YEARS)
� The entertainment media’s influence on young people (July 24, 2010). National Conference of State Legislatures,
The Forum for America’s Ideas. Louisville, KY.
� Twixt, teens, twenties: More media messages, constantly connected (June 11, 2010). Women’s Health Virginia 13 th
Annual Conference on Women’s Health. Charlottesville, VA.
� Growing up sexually in a mediated world (Feb. 10, 2009). Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State
University, PA.
� Young people: The emerging South (Nov. 17, 2008). Leadership Seminar for Southern Legislators, UNC-CH.
� Media and breastfeeding: Friend or foe? (Sept. 25, 2007). Invited speaker, Breastfeeding & Feminism
Symposium, UNC-CH.
� Media, sex and adolescents (June, 2007). North Carolina Comprehensive School Health Training Center,
Boone, NC; South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Charleston, S.C.
� Growing up in a mediated world: The mass media and adolescent’s health (Feb. 23, 2007). The Glover and Frances
Graham Trent Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
� Emerging adults in a media-saturated world. (Feb. 19, 2007). Invited speaker. Carolina Consortium Series,
UNC-CH Center for Developmental Science. Chapel Hill, NC.
� Media, sex and your adolescent (April 10, 2006). Invited speaker. Arendell Parrott Academy, Kinston, NC.

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� The education of Shelby Knox (Feb. 10, 2006). Panelist. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
� The effects of the media on adolescents (June 10, 2005). Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar, Raleigh, NC.
� Media smarts: Making media literacy a part of pregnancy prevention programs (with Kate Rademacher) (Feb. 17,
May 4, 2005). Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
� What’s love got to do with it? (April 7, 2005). Visiting professor. Dept. of Communication Studies, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
TEACHING RECORD
Have taught courses in news writing, news reporting, research methods (undergraduate and graduate), mass
media and aging, mass communication process and effects, current issues in mass media, and communication
theory. Currently teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in health communication. Since 1998, I have
been the head of the School’s Honors program and serve on the committee of each JOMC senior who writes
an honors thesis (10-12 students each year).
ADVISING
Have chaired 30 completed doctoral committees; 35 master's committees; and 7 undergraduate honors
committees in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Have served on doctoral committees in
the Departments of Anthropology, City and Regional Planning, Communication Studies, English,
Psychology, Sociology, and in the Schools of Education and Public Health.
LEADERSHIP EDUCATION
� Fellow, Academic Leadership Program, UNC-CH Institute for Arts and Humanities (2001-02)
� Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC (Dec. 2001)
� Participant in a two-day workshop on teaching in multicultural classrooms, Chapel Hill (May 1994)
� Participant, first BRIDGES: Academic Leadership for Women course (Fall 1993)
� Leadership Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, Gannett Center for Media Studies,
Columbia University (June 1986)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS
� Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
� International Communication Association (ICA)
� International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)
� Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
� Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)

2010-2015
GRANTS
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Television and International Family Change: A Randomized Experiment
Sub-contract, PI; Rukmalie Jayakody (Penn State, PI)
NICHD (R01)
2010-2015 HIV Prevention Among African Americans: A Media Campaign
Co-Investigator with Adaora Adimora, PI
NIH/NCMHD (1 R01 MD004065-01)
2009-2012 Youth Self-Presentation of Spirituality Online:
Comparisons to Survey Reports and Links to Dating and Sexual Behavior, PI
John Templeton Foundation
2007-2012 Partnership for social science research on HIV/AIDS in China,
Co-Investigator with Gail Henderson, PI
NICHD (R24 HD056670-01)
2007-09 Analysis of sex and sexual health on Chinese television, PI
UNC-CH Center for AIDS Research
2000-06 The mass media and adolescents’ sexual health, PI
NICHD (R01 HD38508-01A)
1999-2002 Youth & the media: Setting the research agenda, PI
William T. Grant Foundation
1995 Study of popular media portrayal of sexuality and its effects on audiences,
Co-I with Jeanne R. Steele
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
1994-96 Family, school, peers and media: Mapping the interaction among adolescents’ primary sex
educators
Co-I with Jeanne R. Steele, PI
NIMH: UNC-CH Exploratory Center for the Study of Health Behaviors in
Vulnerable Youth
1994-98 National Television Violence Project
Co-PI with Frank Biocca
National Cable TV Association
1984-89 Mass media and the prevention of adolescent smoking
Collaborator with Karl Bauman, PI
1986-87 The interpretation of sexual information in music videos, PI
Center for Population Options
1983-86 The press-legislature relationship in North Carolina: An analysis of coorientation
UNC-CH Research Council Grant

1982-84 The limits of diversity: News sources used in television news and front-page news stories
UNC-CH Research Council Grant
1983-84 Parent, peer and media support for adolescent sexual behavior, PI
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
1981-83 The effect of cable television in a small community
UNC-CH Research Council Grant
1982 UNC-CH Junior Faculty Development Award
1977-78 The effect of community attachments on newspaper readership,
Co-PI with Bob Stevenson
American Association of Newspaper Publishers
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
� Editorial boards: Communication Research
International Journal of Sexual Health
Journal of Adolescent Health
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Journal of Communication
Mass Communication and Society (1999-2003)
Media Psychology
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� Reviewer of manuscripts for:
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Health Education and Behavior, Psychology of Women Quarterly,
Psychological Reports, Pediatrics, Lancet; Sexualities; Unwin Hyman Inc., Sage Publications,
Oxford University Press, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
� Member, Research Advisory Panel for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy,
Washington, DC. (2007-present)
� Conference co-chair (2009), Conference advisory committee (2010, 2011), Conference on Health
Communication, Marketing and Media, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
� Member, Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Academy of Sciences (2007-2010)
� Member, Trojan Sexual Health Advisory Council (2005-2009)
� Steering committee member, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s (NIAAA)
Initiative on Underage Drinking (2004-present)
� Population Sciences Subcommittee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Initial
Review Group, CHHD-W (2003-07; special reviewer periodically to present)
� Faculty Scholars selection committee, W.T. Grant Foundation, NY (2003-07)
� Member, Technical Advisory Group for Youthnet, a USAID-funded internationa initiative for reproductive
health among youth around the world (2002-05)
� Member, Media Task Force of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC.
(1996-99)
� Member, International Communication and Youth Culture research team studying the internationalization
of youth culture (1985-90)
� Member, Executive Committee, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
(AEJMC) (1988-89)
� Elected Member, Chair (1988-89) Standing Committee on Research, AEJMC (1983-89)
� Board of Directors, The Non-violence Project, NY (1994-98)
� Co-editor, Journalism Quarterly book reviews (1983-87)
� Member, Place of Convention Committee, AEJMC (1983-86)
� External reviewer of proposed doctoral programs at the Universities of Florida and Alabama
(Dec. 1984, 1985, 1986)
� Head, Communication Theory and Methodology division, AEJMC (1983-84)
� Editor, Theory and Methodology division newsletter, AEJMC (1978-81)
UNIVERSITY
� Member, Faculty Council Executive Committee (2009-present)
� Member, Carolina Women’s Center Advisory Board (2008-present)
� Member, University Naming Committee (2004-present)
� Member, Women's Studies Department Advisory Board (1986-87; 2004-present)

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� Member, UNC Academic Plan Steering Committee (2010-11)
� Chair, UNC Task Force on Future Promotion and Tenure Policies and Practices (2009-10)
� Member, Undergraduate Research subcommittee of the Quality Enhancement Plan
(self study for SACS reaccreditation) (2005)
� Member, search committees for the Chancellor (1994-95); Vice Chancellor for Administration;
William C. Friday Distinguished Professorship in the School of Education; Provost (1999-00);
Dean of School of Journalism and Mass Communication (2004-05); Provost (2010)
� Member, Policy Advisory Board, Institute for African-American Research (1997-03)
� Member, Advisory Board, Curriculum in Cultural Studies (1995-99)
� Member, Advisory Board of the Sonya H. Stone Black Cultural Center (1995-98)
� Chair of the UNC-CH Faculty (1994-97)
� Member, Chancellor’s Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force (1997)
� Member, Central Selection Committee, Morehead scholarship, John Motley Morehead Foundation (1997)
� Member, Committee on Commencement (1994-97; 2008-present)
� Member, Institute for Research in Social Science Advisory Board (1994-97)
� Member, Faculty Legislative Liaison Committee (1992-97)
� Elected member, chair (1991-’92), Chancellor's Advisory Committee (1989-97)
� Elected delegate (1987-‘90) UNC system Faculty Assembly; head of UNC-CH delegation (1994-’97);
vice chair, Faculty Welfare Committee (1989-90)
� Member, University Planning Committee on Sexual Harassment (1990-92)
� Member, Chair (1992-’96) Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Day Care (1986-92)
� Chair, Faculty Council Committee on the Status of Women (1986-89)
� Elected member, Faculty Council (1986-89)
� Member of the board of directors, president (1985) UNC-CH Association for Women Faculty (1982-84)
� Member, Policy Board of the Carolina Population Center (1979-84)
� Subcommittee chair, Task Group IX (The graduate program), University Self-study (1983)
� Elected member, Educational Policy Committee (1979-82)
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
� Member, Chair (2005-2010), Tenure and Promotion committee (1994 – 2010)
� Member, Chair (1979) faculty search committees (1990, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
� Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (1979-94)
� Member, Administrative Board (1980-85, 1989-94)
� Director, Graduate Studies (1991-94)
� Coordinator, Ph.D. program in Mass Communication (1979-91)
� Chair, Ph.D. 25th Anniversary Symposium (April 1990)
� Member, Computers Committee (1984-89)
� Chair, Curriculum Committee (1983-84)
COMMUNITY
� Member and Chair (2004-06), Board of Trustees, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
(2002-2008; 2010- present)
� Advisory board member, North Carolina Association for Adolecent Pregnancy Prevention (2001-05)
� Member and Chair (2002-03), Board of Trustees, The Women’s Center, Chapel Hill, NC (1998-2001)