Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Dill, Karen E. frey50

How fantasy becomes reality : seeing through media influence / Karen E. Dill. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - ix, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

9780195372083 0195372085

2008052692


Mass media--Social aspects.
Mass media--Psychological aspects.
Social psychology.

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