Dill-Shackleford, Karen, 1969-

How fantasy becomes reality : information and entertainment media in everyday life / Karen Dill-Shackleford. - Revised and expanded edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. - 320 pages ; 24 cm

Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dill, the author of the single-most-cited study on the effects of video-game violence, draws on extensive research in social psychology to show not only the myriad ways - for good and ill - that media influence us, but also why we resist believing they do.

9780190239299 (hbk.) : £22.99


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

HM1206 / .D55 2015

302.23 DIL