Fashina Aladé, PhD
Bio
Fashina (Shina) Aladé is an Assistant Professor of Advertising & Public Relations, and also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. Her work lies at the intersection of media effects, developmental psychology, and early childhood education, with a focus on young children’s comprehension of and learning from educational media. Her research has won top paper awards from the International Communication Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has been published in journals such as Media Psychology, Computers & Education, and the Journal of Children and Media. Dr. Aladé earned her PhD at Northwestern University in Media, Technology, & Society, where she conducted research with the Center on Media and Human Development. She also holds an MA from Ohio State University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, both in Communication.
Dr. Aladé is passionate about elucidating the ways that media and technology can be used to positively impact the lives of children and families. As a community-engaged scholar, much of her research is conducted in partnership with community organizations like GBH Kids and Detroit Public Television on projects such as evaluating children’s television programs and online games as well as family outreach programs. She often engages in outreach activities, such as professional development workshops for educators and creating tip sheets for children's television producers, to make sure that her research reaches the people who need it most: parents, educators, and children's media creators.
Roles
Thematic Research Areas
Health & Risk, Environment & Science Communication
Media Psychology
Research Centers and Labs
Health and Risk Communication Center
Program Affiliations
Research and Teaching
Research Areas
- Children and Media
- Educational Technology
- Cognitive Development
- Comprehension Models
Current Projects
- Representations of Gender and Race in Children's Educational Television
- Impact of parents' racial-ethnic socialization practices on children's media selection
- Content analysis of social emotional learning in children's TV programs
- Affordances of AI for children's mathematics learning
Courses
- ADV 342 Account Planning & Research
- ADV 492 Kids, Media, & Advertising
- ADV 892 Advertising & Media in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
- MI/ADV/JRN 960 Media and Technology
