J. Alison Bryant (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Her research focuses primarily on integrating network theories and analysis into research on children's media to try to understand the evolution of the children's media industry and the way that media, especially socially interactive technologies, affect youth. She has published articles in journals such as "Human Communication Research," "Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication," and "Adolescent Medicine C"linics; and has written several chapt...