Common Sense Media and the Aspen Institute Announce Schedule for "Beyond Primetime" Media Conference.The Media Leaders, Policymakers, and Parents to Begin National Dialogue About Kids Living in a 24/7 Media World SAN FRANCISCO -- Common Sense Media and the Aspen Institute have announced the schedule for the first "Beyond Primetime: Will the Media Grow Healthier Kids? Stay Tuned" conference. The forum will bring together media decision makers and respected national thought leaders to talk about today's media world and ways to improve the media landscape for kids and families. Conference organizers early next week will announce the names of CEOs from America's leading media companies who will be participating in the conference. For American kids, using media is a full time job. Studies show that kids spend more than 45 hours a week with media, including television, the Internet, iPods, movies, cell phones and video games. That's more time than they spend with their parents or in school. What's good and what's not about today's media world for kids is just one topic conference participants will discuss. The conference will take place on February 5 and 6 at the Time Warner Conference Center in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY. The schedule, which is subject to change, includes: Monday, February 5 6:00 - 8:00pm The Media as Parent Tuesday, February 6 8:15 - 10:00am What is the Responsibility of Media Leaders? 10:15 - 11:15am Should Media be Regulated When it Comes to Kids? 11:15 - 12:15pm Keeping Kids Healthy in a 24/7 Media World 1:00 - 2:00pm Media, Kids, and Ethics 2:10 - 3:10pm Does the Internet Change Everything? 3:15 - 4:30pm Good Media for Kids Can Make a Difference Partial list of participants includes: Walter Isaacson, President the Aspen Institute; James P. Steyer, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Founder, Common Sense Media; Ken Auletta, The New Yorker; Geoff Cowan, Dean, Annenberg School of Communications, USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ; FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. Commissioners Deborah Tate and Michael Copps; Doug Lowenstein, President, Electronic Software Association; Eziekiel Emanuel, MD, NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ; Thomas Robinson, MD, Stanford; James Marks, VP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, charitable organization devoted exclusively to health care issues. It was established in 1936 by Robert Wood Johnson (1893–1968), board chairman of the Johnson & Johnson medical products company. ; Jane Brown, professor, UNC (Universal Naming Convention) A standard for identifying servers, printers and other resources in a network, which originated in the Unix community. A UNC path uses double slashes or backslashes to precede the name of the computer. -- Chapel Hill; Vicky Rideout, VP, Kaiser Family Foundation The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), or just Kaiser Family Foundation, is a U.S.-based non-profit, private operating foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. ; A.O. Scott, Film Critic, The New York Times; Howard Gardner, professor and author, Harvard University; Carla Hendra, Co-CEO, Ogilvy & Mather; Jeff Cole, Director, Center for the Digital Future, Annenberg School, USC; Elliot Schrage, VP, Google; Mike Tollin, television and film producer; Pat Mitchell, President, Museum of Television and Radio Museum of Television and Radio, American museum that chronicles the evolution of radio and television; opened in New York City as the Museum of Broadcasting in 1976. It is in effect the first public library devoted to the electronic media. ; Gary Knell, President, Sesame Workshop; Laura Walker, President, WNYC; Charles Ogletree, professor, Harvard University; Sarah Brown, Director, Center for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy; Alan Schwartz, Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Co.; Gene Sykes, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co. For registration information and for press credentials, please contact Deborah Murphy of the Aspen Institute at 970-544-7955 or email her at deborah.murphy@aspeninstitute.org. For updated information about speakers, schedules and topics, visit www.commonsensemedia.org/beyondprimetime. |
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