Donald F. Roberts

Donald F. Roberts
Don Roberts in the Blasket Islands, September 2003.

Donald F. Roberts (born March 30, 1939) is the Thomas More Storke Professor Emeritus in Communication at Stanford University.

Roberts studied at Columbia University, where he received his B.A. in 1961, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an M.A. in 1963, and at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1968 and joined the Stanford faculty at that time. At Stanford, he was Director of the Institute for Communication Research (1985–1990 and 1999–2001), and chair of the Department of Communication (1990–1996). He retired in 2006.[1]

Much of Roberts' research concerns the effects of media on youth.[2] A notable study coauthored by Roberts and Ulla Foehr for the Kaiser Family Foundation found that, at the turn of the millennium, U.S. children spent the equivalent amount of time to a full-time job watching television and other media,[3][4][5] and a later follow-on study by Roberts and others coined the name “Generation M” for the youth of the day after discovering that they were packing even more media into their schedules by multitasking.[6][7] Roberts also studied depictions of drug use and violence in media,[8][9] and took part in 1997 U.S. Senate hearings on violent music lyrics.[10] Roberts' research provided the foundation for the content rating systems of the Recreational Software Advisory Council, of which he was a board member,[11][12] and its successor organization the Internet Content Rating Association.[13]

Books

  • The Process and Effects of Mass Communication (with Wilbur Schramm). University of Illinois Press, 1971, ISBN 9780252001970.
  • It's Not Only Rock & Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents (with Peter G. Christenson). Hampton Press, 1998, ISBN 9781572731424.
  • Substance Use in Popular Music Videos, Diane Publishing Co., 2001, ISBN 9780756733865.
  • Kids and Media in America: Patterns of Use at the Millennium (with Ulla G. Foehr). Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0521527903.

References

  1. ^ Communication Faculty: Donald F. Roberts.
  2. ^ "Spoiling Our Kids", Stanford Magazine, 2002, http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/novdec/features/media&kids.html .
  3. ^ "Study: Kids' Media Use A Full-Time Job -- More Than 38 Hours A Week Consumed; Biggest Chunk Of Time Taken By Television", Seattle Times, November 18, 1999, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991118&slug=2996060 .
  4. ^ "Plugged-In Generation; More Than Ever, Kids Are at Home With Media", Washington Post, November 18, 1999 .
  5. ^ "Study Finds TV Tops Kids' Big Diet of Media", Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1999 .
  6. ^ Wallis, Claudia (March 19, 2006), "The MultiTasking Generation", Time Magazine, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174696,00.html .
  7. ^ Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005.
  8. ^ "Violence Still Saturates Television, Study Reports", San Jose Mercury News, April 16, 1998 .
  9. ^ "Stanford Study: Films Show Drug Use, Omit Consequences. U.S. Agencies To Seek Changes In Movies, Music", San Jose Mercury News, April 29, 1999 .
  10. ^ "Clash Over Pop Music Renewed At A Hearing Over Violent Lyrics", Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1997 .
  11. ^ Recreational Software Advisory Council Launches Objective, Content-Labeling Advisory System for the Internet. RSAC, February 28, 1996.
  12. ^ Roberts, Donald F. (August 28, 1996), Media Content Rating Systems: Informational Advisories or Judgmental Restrictions?, Johannesburg, South Africa: The Wally Langenschmidt Memorial Lecture, South African Broadcasting Corporation, http://penta2.ufrgs.br/gereseg/censura/rsac/roberts1.htm .
  13. ^ Internet Content Rating Association Formed to Provide Global System for Protecting Children and Free Speech on the Internet: AOL, IBM, Microsoft and Recreational Software Advisory Council Join Forces with Other Global Organizations to Create and Manage International Online Rating System. Microsoft, May 12, 1999.

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