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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455093503321

Autore

Dill Karen E

Titolo

How fantasy becomes reality [[electronic resource] ] : seeing through media influence / / Karen E. Dill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612335402

1-282-33540-5

0-19-970726-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects

Mass media - Psychological aspects

Social psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-297) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fantasy and reality: a primer on media and social construction -- Challenges and opportunities of growing up in a media-saturated world -- Media violence: scholarship versus salesmanship -- Seeing through and seeing beyond media visions of race and gender -- Issues in media and social learning: rap music, beauty and domestic violence -- Advertising, consumerism, and health -- Get with the programming: media messages about who you are -- The social psychology of political coverage -- From the passenger's seat to the driver's seat.