CMCH authors are well represented in the new book Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research. Editor Ellen Wartella is a member of the CMCH Advisory Board and editor John Murray was a visiting scientist at CMCH during 2005. Additionally, CMCH Researchers have written these chapters:
- David Bickham was second author on the chapter "From Attention to Comprehension: How Children Watch and Learn From Television"
- Marie Evans Schmidt was lead author on the chapter "The Impact of Television on Cognitive Development and Educational Achievement
- Michael Rich wrote the chapter "Is Television Healthy? The Medical Perspective"
The book also comes with a CD-ROM containing a 130-page bibliography of television research. Many of the citations can be found, along with their structured abstracts, in the CMCH Database of Research.
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