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James Alex Bonus

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2015
Media Influence and HealthChild Development and Digital TechnologyMedia, Gender, and AdvertisingNostalgia and Consumer BehaviorEarly Childhood Education and Development

Publications

45

Citations

492

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

12

Publishing since 2015

Research summary
AI-generated

James Alex Bonus studies how children and families learn from and engage with media, especially educational television, and how entertainment produces emotional and psychological experiences across the lifespan. His work looks at topics like science learning from TV and multimedia, parent-child conversations sparked by educational content, representation (such as gender and LGBQ+ families) in children's media, and the emotional appeal of nostalgia and humor in entertainment. This research sits at the intersection of media studies, developmental psychology, and communication.

Children's educational media and learningParent-child media co-engagementMedia psychology and emotional experienceRepresentation and stereotypes in children's contentEntertainment nostalgia and coping

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade with a peak in 2021, a dip in the following years, and a recent uptick in 2025, suggesting a relatively steady but variable pace of output.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 6 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 8 publications8212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 5 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Media Psychology×5
  • Journal of Children and Media×5
  • Communication Research×4
  • Open Science Framework×4
  • Journal of Communication×3
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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