Psychology of the media - Giles, David 1964- (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY -- History of the Mass Media -- Ways of Thinking about Psychology and the Media -- THE PASSIVE MEDIA USER -- Anti- and Pro-Social Behaviour and the Media -- Advertising and Persuasion -- Body Image and the Media -- THE ACTIVE MEDIA USER -- Parasocial Interaction -- Audience Participation Media -- Fandom -- THE MEDIATED SOCIAL WORLD -- Celebrity -- Media Representations -- Media Framing -- Developmental Psychology and the Media -- NEW MEDIA -- Social Relations Online -- Recent Developments in Internet Technology -- Other Technologies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-221) and index.
Keywords: Mass media -- Psychological aspects