TY - BOOK AU - Giles,David TI - Psychology of the media SN - 9780230249868 (pbk.) AV - P96.P75 G39 PY - 2010/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Mass media KW - Psychological aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -