Media Literacy and Social Media

Pathway Contributor: Laurie A Wadsworth

Credentials:
FDC, PDt, PhD

Bio:
For the past 15 years, Dr. Laurie A. Wadsworth has been a professor of Human Nutrition at St. Francis Xavier University. Her professional experience lies in the community nutrition field, having worked for Saskatchewan Health for twelve years as a public health nutritionist, provincial nutritionist and health promotion consultant. Laurie has a Bachelor’s degree in dietetics and nutrition and a PhD combining nutrition and media studies from the University of Saskatchewan. Her Master of Science was in community nutrition from the University of Manitoba. She is a Fellow of Dietitians of Canada, and assisted in development of national policy as a member of the Trans Fat Task Force for Canada and the Technical Advisory Committee for Health Check™ for Heart and Stroke Canada. Her research interests lie more in answering “why did I eat that?” rather than “what did I eat?’ which led to her use of qualitative methodologies in media analysis.

Contributions:

• Can food-related media literacy programs improve nutritional knowledge and dietary behaviours of children, adolescents and families?  

  Role: Author

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