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Name: Julie Dobrow
Title: Director, Communications and Media Studies Program
Lecturer in Child Development
Departmental Affiliation: Child Development Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; M.A. Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania; A.B. Smith College
Expertise: Children and Media; Communication; Intercultural Communication; Ethnicity and Media Use
Effects of media on children; ethnic and gender representation in media and its effects on different groups; cross cultural communication; media and public service
E-mail: julie.dobrow@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Dobrow, J. (2003). "Electronic Media in Young Children's Lives." In Proactive Parenting: Guiding your Child from Two to Six. New York: Beakley Books.

Vale, L.J. and Dobrow, J.R. (2001). "Urban Images on Children's Television." In Vale, L.J. and Warner, S. B. (Eds.) Imaging the City. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Dobrow, J. (1998). The Power of Numbers. Better Viewing Magazine, November/December 1998.

Dobrow, J.R. and Gidney, C.L. (1998). The Good, the Bad and the Foreign: Use of Dialect in Children's Animated Television. The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science.

Dobrow, J. (1997). The Problem with Pink: Dealing with Gender Roles on Children's Television. Better Viewing Magazine, March/April 1997.

Dobrow, J.R., Ed. (1990). Social and Cultural Aspects of VCR Use. Englewood, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dobrow, J.R. (1988). Cultivation Analysis and a 'New Technology': How VCR Use Extends and Diversifies Viewing. In Signorielli, N. and Morgan, M. (Eds.) Advances in Cultivation Analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

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