4th Edition
Media Effects Advances in Theory and Research
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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
1. A History of Media Effects Research Traditions
Peter Vorderer, David W. Park, and Sarah Lutz
2. Media Effects Theories: An Overview
Patti M. Valkenburg and Mary Beth Oliver
3. The World of News and Politics
Yariv Tsfati and Nathan Walter
4. News Framing Theory and Research
David Tewksbury and Dietram A. Scheufele
5. Cultivation Theory, Media, Stories, Processes, and Reality
Rick Busselle and Jan Van den Bulck
6. Media Priming and Accessibility
David R. Ewoldsen and Nancy Rhodes
7. Social Cognitive Theory
Marina Krcmar
8. Currents in the Study of Persuasion
James Price Dillard
9. Narrative Effects
Melanie Green, Helena Bilandzic, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, and Elaine Paravati
10. Media Choice and Selective Exposure
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Axel Westerwick, and Daniel J. Sude
11. Media and Emotion
Robin L. Nabi
12. Media, Identity, and the Self
Jonathan Cohen, Markus Appel, and Michael D. Slater
13. Media Psychophysiology and Neuroscience: Bringing Brain Science into Media Processes and Effects Research
Paul D. Bolls, René Weber, Annie Lang, and Robert F. Potter
14. Media Violence and Aggression
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski and Karin M. Fikkers
15. Media and Sexuality
Paul Wright
16. Media Stereotypes: Content, Effects, and Theory
Travis L. Dixon
17. Eudaimonia as Media Effect
Arthur A. Raney, Mary Beth Oliver, and Anne Bartsch
18. Advertising Effects and Advertising Effectiveness
Louisa Ha
19. Educational Media for Children
Amy B. Jordan and Sarah E. Vaala
20. Media Effects and Health
Jessica G. Myrick
21. Entertainment and Enjoyment as Media Effect
Arthur A. Raney and Jennings Bryant
22. Video Games
Christoph Klimmt and Daniel Possler
23. Psychological Effects of Interactive Media Technologies: A Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) Perspective
S. Shyam Sundar and Jeeyun Oh
24. Social Media
Jesse Fox and Bree McEwan
25. Effects of Mobile Communication: Revolutions in an Evolving Field
Scott W. Campbell and Rich Ling
26. Virtual Reality in Media Effects
Sriram Kalyanaraman and Jeremy Bailenson
27. Cross-Cultural Media Effects Research
Jinhee Kim and Kimin Eom
Biography
Mary Beth Oliver is the Bellisario Professor of Media Studies in the Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University, USA, where she also serves as Co-Director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory.
Arthur A. Raney is the James E. Kirk Professor of Communication in the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University, USA.
Jennings Bryant is CIS Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, USA.