Description
The 21st century has seen the use of media technologies become thoroughly integrated with our daily lives: most of us feel lost without our mobile device in hand, check social media multiple times a day, and turn to digital entertainment in our free time. This shift has spurred the emergence of media psychology: a multidisciplinary approach to studying how people use, process, and are affected by the media and technology they engage every day.This second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology brings together leading experts in the field to update what is a rapidly evolving area of study. Returning contributors expand chapters on the history and progress of media literacy, research methods, parasocial experiences, and race and the media, among others. New chapters tackle cutting-edge issues like artificial intelligence, research in media and social justice, the impact of deep-fakes and social media on conspiracy theories, the psychology of fandom, the self as reflected in avatars, the evolution of video games and virtual reality, and the psychological experience of the pandemic related to media use.Together, this volume retains and broadens our understanding of the foundational aspects of media psychology, from research methods and theory to fields like cognitive and developmental psychology. It presents novel approaches to how we conceptualize, operationalize, and analyze media psychological phenomena. Building on the field-defining research of the first edition, this update collects scholarship covering the most essential developments in media psychology in the last decade.
Table of Contents
1. An Expanded Volume for an Expanding Field: Media Psychology as an Inherently Interdisciplinary ApproachKaren E. Shackleford and Nicholas D. Bowman2. The Case for Media Psychology as a Distinct Field Pamela Brown Rutledge3. Media Literacy: History, Progress and Future Hopes Edward Arke4. A View of Social Media from a Clinician's Couch Don Grant5. Social Psychological Perspectives on Audience Involvement: On the Self and Other in Identification, Parasocial Experiences, and Social Surrogacy Karen E. Shackleford, Melanie C. Green and J. David Cohen6. Research methods, design, and statistics in media psychology El-Lim Kim, Sara Prot, and Craig A. Anderson7. Qualitative Research and Media Psychology Patrick Sweeney8. Doing Research on Media Psychology and Social Justice Srividya Ramasubramanian, Erica Scharrer, and Shannon Burth9. Emotions and Media Psychology Katrin Döveling, Meghan S. Sanders, and Denise Sommer10. The Psychology Underlying Media-Based Persuasion Robin L. Nabi, Emily Moyer-Gusé, and Lindsay B. Miller11. Race, Ethnicity, and the Media Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz and Michelle Ortiz12. Avatar, a Lasting Definition: A mediated self-representation that an intelligent user controls during dynamic interactions Rabindra Ratan and Swati Pandita13. Digital Media Use: From Problematic Use and Addiction to Healthy Media EngagementEl-Lim Kim, Patrick K. Bender, and Douglas A. Gentile14. When Social Life Moves Online David Westerman15. Conspiracy Theory Communication and Its Effects Joseph E. Uscinski and Asheley R. Landrum16. Generative Artificial Intelligence as Creative Artificial Intelligence Markus Appel, Tanja V. Messingschlager, Gavin Raffloer, and Perry A. Reed17. Computational Methods in Media Psychology Jacob T. Fisher18. Finding Middle Ground in Cognitive Media Psychology Richard Huskey and Ralf Schmälzle19. Media Psychology and Moral Response Allison Eden and Matthew Grizzard20. Media Use and Identity Development Marie-Louise Mares and Matthew L. Meier21. Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences Arthur A. Raney, Mary Beth Oliver22. Digital Games and Media Psychology: A Medium That Demands Our (Near-Constant) AttentionNicholas D. Bowman and David Paul Peters23. The Psychology of Fandom and Parasocial ExperienceRebecca Tukachinsky Forster and Gayle S. Stever24. Tracking Research Quality and Reach in the Digital Age: Traditional Bibliometrics and Altmetrics in Media PsychologyKaren E. Shackleford and Nicholas D. Bowman
