... public health professionals, researchers studying adolescent sexual health and/or media use, and program developers This research was conducted in RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation ... area of adolescent life We begin with a brief description of the state of adolescent sexual health in the United States Then, we discuss some of the more prominent theories of media effects on ... new media content and new media effects as they relate to adolescent sexual health We focus on associations between the use of content and adolescent outcomes that are unintended by content creators...