ABSTRACT

Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students.

This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In recognition of the multitude of research trajectories within media effects, this edition also includes new chapters on narratives, positive media, the self and identity, media selection, and cross-cultural media effects. As scholarship in media effects continues to evolve and expand, Media Effects serves as a benchmark of theory and research for the current and future generations of scholars.

The book is ideal for scholars and for undergraduate and graduate courses in media effects, media psychology, media theory, psychology, sociology, political science, and related disciplines.

Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

chapter 2|20 pages

Media Effects Theories 1

An Overview

chapter 7|15 pages

Social Cognitive Theory

chapter 11|16 pages

Media and Emotion

chapter 13|16 pages

Media Psychophysiology and Neuroscience

Bringing Brain Science into Media Processes and Effects Research

chapter 15|16 pages

Media and Sexuality

chapter 16|15 pages

Media Stereotypes

Content, Effects, and Theory

chapter 20|16 pages

Media Effects and Health

chapter 22|15 pages

Video Games

chapter 23|16 pages

Psychological Effects of Interactive Media Technologies

A Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) Perspective

chapter 24|16 pages

Social Media

chapter 25|15 pages

Effects of Mobile Communication

Revolutions in an Evolving Field