ABOUT Rebecca Hains, Ph.D. (USA)

Rebecca C. Hains (Ph.D., Temple University, 2007) is Assistant Professor of Communications at Salem State College. Her research interests include the construction of gender in the mass media; girls' negotiation of popular culture; and children's use of media in identity development. Her latest publication is “Inventing the Teenage Girl: The Construction of Female Identity in Nickelodeon’s My Life as a Teenage Robot" (Popular Communication, Sept. 2007).