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    guest editors, Megan A. Moreno, MD, MSED, MPH, Victor C. Strasburger, MD.
    Summary: Today's teens are often referred to as Digital Natives due to their upbringing immersed in technological tools including smartphones and social media, while most of us who provide healthcare for this group remain at best, digital immigrants. These technologies present both new opportunities and challenges to teens' health, as well as their education and life experiences. Pediatricians can play a key role in helping teens and their families navigate critical issues such as balancing online and offline lives, as well as understand links between media and health. This issue of AM:STARS is mean.
    Digital Access eBook Comp Acad 2014
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    Hamid Mowlana and Laurie J. Wilson.
    Summary: This volume is a contribution to contemporary communication theory and social transformation. The text includes the main perspectives in development theories as well as many of the themes of modernization and social change that have preoccupied major writers since the end of World War I. It synthesizes a wide range of experiemental studies over a broad range of issues concerning development and communication and includes analyses, reviews and critical reconstructions of such thinkers and theorists as Ion Khaldun, Smith, Marx, Weber, Habermas and Khomeini. It also includes postmodern and poststructural writers and polemiasts such as Foucalt, Lyotard, DeLeuze and Guattari. Nielsen 9780801304095 20160527

    Contents:
    Development - a field in search of itself
    beyond developmentalism - a framework of analysis
    contending theories and approaches to communication and development
    culture, society, and communication
    communication policies and planning for development
    communication technologies and development - for whom and for what?
    telecommunications and its impact
    the use of modern space technology in social and economic development
    individuals and communities - communication and the transformation of society. Nielsen 9780801304095 20160527
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