Research
Books
Articles and Book Chapters
Refereed Articles:
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.
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.
Pike, J., & Jennings, N. (2005). The effects of commercials on children’s perceptions of gender appropriate toy use. Sex Roles, (52), 83-91.
Jennings, N., & Collins, C. (2008). Virtual or virtually U: Educational institutions in Second Life, International Journal of Social Sciences, 2(3), 180-186.
Jennings, N. A., & Alper, M. (2016). Young Children’s Positive and Negative Parasocial Relationships with Media Characters. Communication Research Reports, 33(2), 96-102.
Moses, A. M., Jennings, N. A., Brod, R., Hooker, S. D., Cordell, B., & Sallee, T. (2014). The Effects 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), 20-35. Available online: https://journals.uncc.edu/dialog/article/view/208
Moses, A. M., Jennings, N. A., Brod, R., Hooker, S. D., Cordell, B., & Sallee, T. (2014). How an Educational Television Program Depicts Literacy and How its Messages Affect Young Children’s Literacy Attitudes. NHSA Dialog: The Research to Practice Journal for the Early Childhood Field, 17(1), 93-97. Available online: https://journals.uncc.edu/dialog/article/view/146
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.
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.
Liao, T., Jennings, N. A., Dell, L., & Collins, C. (2019). Could the Virtual Dinosaur See You? Understanding Children’s Perceptions of Presence and Reality Distinction in Virtual Reality Environments, Journal of Virtual World Research, 12(2). https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/7361
Oh, D., Banjo, O., & Jennings, N. A. (2022). Whose voices count?: Sourcing U.S. American television news about the world. International Journal of Communication, 16, 4210-4230. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18835/3877
Book Chapters and Non-Refereed Articles:
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.
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). Available from: http://cis.paisley.ac.uk/livi-ci0/slccedu2007rev2.doc
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.
Jennings, N. A. (2016). I am who I am. TelevIZIon, 29, 33-35. Available: http://www.br-online.de/jugend/izi/english/publication/televizion/29_2016_E/Jennings-I_am_who_I_am.pdf
Jennings, N. A. with Gruber, F., Lahusen, S., Hildebrand, E., Koray, S., Baykal, G. E., Gomez, P., Toro, Y., Klempin, A., Sirichotchumnarn, P., Termsirikamol, W., Talbot, S., Stein, K. & Götz, M. (2016). What shapes my self, TelevIZIon, 29, 14-19. Available: http://www.br-online.de/jugend/izi/english/publication/televizion/29_2016_E/Jennings_Gruber_Lahusen-What_shapes_my_self.pdf
Götz, M., Mendel, C., Lemish, D., Jennings, N., Hains, R., … Yee, A. (2020). Children, COVID-19 and the media: A Study on the Challenges Children are Facing in the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis. TelevIZIon, 33, 4-9. Available: http://www.br-online.de/jugend/izi/english/publication/televizion/33_2020_E/Goetz_Mendel_Lemish-Children_COVID-19_and_the_media.pdf
Jennings, N. A. (2019). Mobilizing Adult Fans of LEGO: Playing Well into Adulthood. In R. Hains and S. Mazzarella (Eds.), More Than Just Bricks: Critical Perspectives on LEGO in Popular Culture (pp. 221-243). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jennings, N. A., Caplovitz, A. G., & Alper, M. (2022). Media Use Among Children with Chronic Health Conditions During the Early Days of the Coronavirus Crisis. In D. Lemish & M. Götz (Eds.), Children worldwide and media in a time of pandemic. (pp. 167-180). Peter Lang.
Götz, M., & Jennings, N. A. (2022). Being an adolescent in the pandemic: Young people from Germany and the United States. In D. Lemish & M. Götz (Eds.), Children worldwide and media in a time of pandemic. (pp. 181-194). Peter Lang.
Bond, B. J., Dill-Shackleford, K. E., Dibble, J. L., Gleason, T. R., Jennings, N., Rosaen, S. F., & Tukachinsky Forster, R. (2024). Parasocial relationships in children and teens. In D. A. Christakis & L. Hale (Eds.), Children and screens: A handbook on digital media and the development, health, and well-being of children and adolescents. Springer Nature.
Jennings, N. A., & Bali, A. (2024). Significant Difference, Cultural Distance, and Cultural Humility in Children’s Media Research, Journal of Content Community & Communication, Special Issue: Media and children – Intersections and Reflections, 20(10), 4-7. https://www.amity.edu/gwalior/jccc/pdf/02-doi-jccc-06-24.pdf
Jennings, N. & Hawkins, V. (2024). Chapter 25 Entertainment-Education Media: Where Learning Is Fun. In N. Bowman (Ed.), Entertainment Media and Communication (pp. 369-382). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi-org.uc.idm.oclc.org/10.1515/9783110792881-026
Jennings, N. A. (2023). Parasocial Relationships and Young Children. In R. Tukachinsky Forster (Ed.), Handbook of Parasocial Experiences. (pp. 173-189), Oxford University Press.