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Autore |
Dill Karen E |
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Titolo |
How fantasy becomes reality : seeing through media influence / / Karen E. Dill |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773573-8 |
9786612335402 |
1-282-33540-5 |
0-19-970726-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mass media - Social aspects |
Mass media - Psychological aspects |
Social psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-297) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media - whether in video games, action movies, or political comedy skits on Saturday Night Live - are just entertaining fantasies that have no tangible impact on our everyday lives, attitudes, & choices. Not so, says Karen Dill in this lively & provocative book. As much as we may want to deny it, the images, sounds, & narratives that bombard us daily have ample power to alter our realities. Dill, the author of the single-most-cited study on the effects of video-game violence, draws on extensive research in social psychology to show not only the myriad ways - for good & ill - that media influence us, but also why we resist believing |
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they do. Vibrantly written & packed with examples from everyday life, her wide-ranging analysis encompasses everything from gender & racial stereotyping to social identity, domestic violence, & presidential politics. |
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