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Dale Kunkel
Children’s media scholar
Dale Kunkel is Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. He studies media issues pertaining to children from a variety of perspectives, including television violence, advertising, sexual messages on television, and the effects of these on children and their development.
Kunkel is a former Congressional Science Fellow, and has testified as an expert witness on children’s media issues at numerous U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and Federal Communications Commission hearings. He has also served on a National Academy of Sciences committee that investigated the role food marketing to children may play in the growing childhood obesity epidemic.
