Sexual risk behavior among U.S. adolescents is a major public health concern. Nearly 800,000 young women aged 15–19 years become pregnant in the United States each year, most of them unintentionally...

...The goal [of this paper]...is to develop a working knowledge base about the use of new media (such as the Internet, social networking sites, cell phones, online video games, and MP3 players) among adolescents and the potential impact on their sexual activity. The literature review presented in this paper has the specific goals of (1) fostering an understanding of the types of new media available to adolescents, outlining both the platforms that adolescents use to access media and the media itself, and (2) illuminating the potential relations between new media and adolescent sexual activity. The intended audiences are policymakers, public health professionals, researchers studying adolescent sexual health and/or media use, and program developers. Read full report