Research from the

FaM LAB.
Current Projects.
Media Sensory Curation

Recent project measuring typically developing and neurodivergent children’s use of screen media to maintain somatosensory regulation in dysregulating environments, and its links with parent-child media conflict

  • Harrison, K., & Wenhold H. (2021). Digital attachment objects: Parent-child media conflict among children with andwithout sensory diagnoses. Proceedings of the 2021 Technology, Mind, & Society Conference, American Psychological Association. http://assets.pubpub.org/b3436ksr/31634521528426.pdf 

    Harrison, K. (2021). Free, appropriate, public, and educational? Screen-schooling U.S. children with disabilities during the 2020 pandemic. Journal of Children and Media, 15, 44-48. http://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2020.1866628

    Harrison, K., & Couture Bue, A. (2021). Media sensory curation and family media conflict: Replication and validation of short-form measures. Media Psychology, 24(4). http://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2020.1758145 

    Harrison, K. (2019). Does media addiction mask adaptive media use? The case of media sensory curation. Media Ethics, 31.

    http://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-backissues/213-fall-2019/3999279- does-media-addiction-mask-adaptive-media-use-the-case-of-media-sensory-curation

    Harrison, K. (2019). Rude or shrewd? Reframing media devices as care structures and child use as accommodation. Journal of Children and Media, 13, 367-375. http://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2019.1628192

    Harrison, K., Vallina, L., Couture, A., Wenhold, A., & Moorman, J. D. (2019). Sensory curation: Theorizing media use for sensory regulation and implications for family media conflict.MediaPsychology,22,653-689.http://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1496024

Representation Matters

Current project collecting retrospective memories of first representation among people with identities that have historically been underrepresented in screen media

The Black Stoicism Project

Current project assessing adolescents’ perceptions of physical and emotional pain experienced by Black and white individuals following exposure to various Black-stoicism media narratives