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How Fantasy Becomes Reality : Information and Entertainment Media in Everyday Life, Revised and Expanded.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190239305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Fantasy Becomes RealityDDC classification:
  • 302.23
LOC classification:
  • HM1206.D55 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- How Fantasy Becomes Reality -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- 1. Fantasy and Reality: A Primer on Media and Social Construction 1 -- 2 Fandom, Fantasy, and Reality 31 -- 3 Old and New Media in Everyday Life: From TV to Social Media 59 -- 4 Media Violence 87 -- 5 Representations of Social Groups in Media: Race, Gender, and Beyond 113 -- 6 Advertising, Consumerism, and Health 141 -- 7 Media and Social Identity 165 -- 8 The Social Psychology of Political Coverage 189 -- 9 From the Passenger's Seat to the Driver's Seat 219 -- Notes 237 -- Index.
Summary: Smartphones, tablets, and other devices delivering information and entertainment are everywhere. Yet we do not fully appreciate the risks and the benefits of their ubiquity. In this new edition of How Fantasy Becomes Reality, Karen E. Dill-Shackleford offers readers a greater understanding of what the current science of psychology tells us about life in our digital culture.
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Cover -- How Fantasy Becomes Reality -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- 1. Fantasy and Reality: A Primer on Media and Social Construction 1 -- 2 Fandom, Fantasy, and Reality 31 -- 3 Old and New Media in Everyday Life: From TV to Social Media 59 -- 4 Media Violence 87 -- 5 Representations of Social Groups in Media: Race, Gender, and Beyond 113 -- 6 Advertising, Consumerism, and Health 141 -- 7 Media and Social Identity 165 -- 8 The Social Psychology of Political Coverage 189 -- 9 From the Passenger's Seat to the Driver's Seat 219 -- Notes 237 -- Index.

Smartphones, tablets, and other devices delivering information and entertainment are everywhere. Yet we do not fully appreciate the risks and the benefits of their ubiquity. In this new edition of How Fantasy Becomes Reality, Karen E. Dill-Shackleford offers readers a greater understanding of what the current science of psychology tells us about life in our digital culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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