Francesca came from Arizona State University to join the School's faculty in 2005. Her teaching interests include television production and management, in addition to media psychology issues and quantitative research methods. Her research largely centers on how an individual’s motivations drive his/her media selectivity, how the selected media are cognitively and emotionally processed by the individual, and finally how this process results in certain media effects on that individual. Francesca has published in communication journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, International Journal on Media Management, and Media Psychology, in addition to psychology journals such as Journal of Primary Prevention and Personality and Individual Differences. She has also published in Journal of School Violence and has written television scripts for educational videos, most of which focus on young children.
media effects; media use; parasocial interaction; information processing
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