Attention, high school journalists: In a culture obsessed with physical appearance and sexual relationships, how much influence does the media have on how you view yourself? Here’s your chance to sound off!

Bring your questions to The American Forum: Sexuality, Teens, and the Media, a discussion led by a high school journalist, a nationally-recognized sexuality educator, and American University School of Communication (SOC) news media expert Jane Hall (moderator).

We need you AND your questions to be with us in the hall for the American Forum, which will be taped for broadcast on WAMU, the public-radio station in the natiion’s news capital. The event will take place during the journalism convention, in Lincoln 2 Room during the convention, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13!

Your voices will be heard as the event is recorded and broadcast on WAMU 88.5, and the program likely will air on other NPR stations.

Students are encouraged to help shape the debate by pre-submitting questions and comments on the American Forum Facebook group http://tinyurl.com/yzmbjyc , by tweeting using #amforum or by visiting the American University School of Communication booth at the convention.

When you submit a question at the School of Communication booth, we would like for you to be present in the audience during the Forum to ask your question there. We will also read from some of your questions — but we’d like for as many students as possible to submit questions AND be present to ask them. We’ll ask you to leave your contact information with your question at the booth. Students will also be invited to ask questions live at the event.

After the event, School of Communication will be holding a contest for student coverage of the event – news stories, broadcast, blog entries, photography, etc. Ten winners each will receive a $10 iTunes gift card, and the best coverage will be highlighted on the SOC web site and on the American Forum Facebook group. In order to participate, students can send their work to americanforum@american.edu or by posting links to online work on the American Forum Facebook group.