Kelly Mendoza is a Ph.D. student in Mass Media & Communication program at Temple University. She received an M.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado in 2002, and a B.A. in Communication and Visual Arts from Regis University in 1999.
Kelly won the 2007 Media Smart Research Award from Cable in the Classroom for her theoretical work on the intersections of media literacy and parental mediation.Her research assistance has been provided on two projects for online games for media literacy. In 2002, she helped develop, implement, and evaluate project Tobacco Education in Media, an online game teaching media literacy skills about tobacco representation in film. In 2005, she was part of a Media Education Lab team to develop My Pop Studio, an online play experience teaching adolescent girls media literacy skills. Currently she works on implementing and evaluating My Pop Studio in various contexts.
Her research interests involve girls and the Internet, particularly howgirls experience online edutainment games, how they communicate online,and in what ways media literacy skills can be learned in online games. Kellyhas provided media literacy workshops to tweens, teens, and parents,and is particularly interested in parental mediation techniques andmedia literacy in the home. She aims to furthereducate parents about the effectiveness of different parental mediationtechniques and make connections to media literacy solutions. Kelly received the Rocky Mountain Communication Association Outstanding TAAward in 2004.
