principal investigator (p.i.): stewart hoover; associate p.i: lynn schofield clark; research associates: diane f. alters, joseph g. champ, lee hood, and henrik boes. the project resulted in the book media, home, and family (routledge, 2004) written in collaboration by hoover, clark and alters. the book argued that how families discuss the rules and practices surrounding media use are an important part of how they lay claim to a family identity in the age of reflexive parenting. the symbolism project also provided the initial research for hoover's, religion in the media age (routledge, 2006), clark's from angels to aliens: teenagers, the media, and the supernatural (oxford u press, 2003), and supported the development of the edited volume practicing religion in the age of the media, edited by hoover and clark (columbia u press, 2002).