Karen Sternheimer
Expert in the impact of popular culture and media on children and teens
Associate professor, Sociology
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Contact at: (213) 740-3541 or sternhei@usc.edu
Expertise:
- mass media
- children and popular culture
- cultural diversity
- media representations
- fears about media's influence on kids
- press coverage of children and teens
- children's culture, marketing and consumption
- fears about youth crime and delinquency
- media representations of deviance
- media literacy education
- American celebrity culture
- youth in urban Los Angeles
- youth driving, alcohol and drug abuse
- youth obesity
- kidnapping
Additional Information:
- Author, Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture: Why Media is not the Answer (August 2009), Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth (2006) and It's Not the Media: The Truth about Pop Culture's Influence on Children (2003)
Faculty fellow, USC Center for Excellence in Teaching