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Jennifer Aubrey

Dr. Jennifer Stevens Aubrey earned her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2004. Her research focuses on the media's effects on emotional, mental, and physical health in young people, especially around issues related to sexuality and body image. Her current research projects examine the effects of sexual objectification in the media on emerging adults' self-consciousness about their bodies, the impact of sexually oriented media on emerging adults' beliefs about the “hookup culture”, and the impact of popular reality television programming on adolescents' attitudes and beliefs about teen pregnancy. Her research has been published in Communication Research , Media Psychology , and Journal of Communication .

The quality of her scholarship and teaching has been recognized by a number of awards and grants to support her research. In 2011, she was named an Emerging Scholar by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2008, she was awarded the Gold Chalk Award by MU's Graduate Professional Council in recognition of significant contribution to the education and training of graduate students . Additionally, she has been an invited speaker for the Medical Institute for Sexual Health and the SPARK Summit.

Frequently Taught Courses
Comm 2100 - Media Communication in Society
Comm 3636 - Contemporary Issues in Mass Communication
Comm 8120 - Quantitative Research Methods
Comm 8510 - Mass Communication Theory
Comm 9520 – Media Effects

Research Interests
Mass communication processes and effects, especially media effects on children and adolescents; The impact of media exposure on body image and the sexual self-concept

Selected Publications
Hopper, K. M., & Aubrey, J. S. (in press). Examining the impact of celebrity gossip magazine coverage of pregnant celebrities on pregnant women's body image. Communication Research.

Aubrey, J. S., & Frisby, C. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: A content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication & Society, 14, 475-501.

Aubrey, J. S., Hopper, M., & Mbure, W. (2011). Check that body!: The effects of sexually objectifying music videos on college men's sexual beliefs. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 55, 360-379.

Aubrey, J. S. (2010). Looking good versus feeling good: An investigation of media frames of health advice and their effects on women's body-related self-perceptions. Sex Roles, 63 , 50-63.

Peters, S., & Aubrey, J. S. (2010). A fat diet of the thin ideal: Investigating relations between exposure to the thin ideal and television viewers' estimates of and attitudes toward overweight people off screen. Journal of Health and Mass Communication, 2, 5-35.

Aubrey, J. S., & Taylor, L. D. (2009). The role of lad magazines in priming men's chronic and temporary appearance-related schemata: An investigation of longitudinal and experimental findings. Human Communication Research, 35, 28-58.

Aubrey, J. S. (2007). Does television exposure influence college women's sexual self-concept? Media Psychology, 10, 157-181.

Aubrey, J. S. (2007). The impact of sexually objectifying media on negative body emotions and sexual self-perceptions: Investigating the mediating role of body self-consciousness. Mass Communication & Society, 10, 1-23.

Aubrey, J. S. (2006). Effects of sexually objectifying media on self-objectification and body surveillance in undergraduates: Results of a 2-year panel study. Journal of Communication, 56, 366-386.

Jennifer Aubrey

Associate Professor

education: PhD, University of Michigan (2004)
email: aubreyj@missouri.edu
office: 217 Switzler Hall
phone: 573-882-0739
focus area: Mass Media