ABSTRACT
Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , USA
When reviewing the extant literature on children and media, it is clear most research has focused primarily on the immediate impact of media use on development in areas such as cognition, executive functioning, social-emotional learning, and behavior (e.g. Anderson & Bushman, 2002 ; Krcmar & Cingel, 2014 ; Lillard & Peterson, 2011 ; Mares & Acosta, 2008 ). Indeed, these shorter term consequences of media use dominate the literature. When longer term studies are conducted, they tend to be outcome specifi c and relate the early use of a particular type of media content with later behavioral outcomes (e.g. Anderson, Huston, Schmitt, Linebarger, & Wright, 2001 ).
