Media and Social Life [Paperback]

Our use of media touches on almost all aspects of our social lives, be they friendships, parent-child relationships, emotional lives, or social stereotypes. How we understand ourselves and others is now largely dependent on how we perceive ourselves and others in media, how we interact with one another through mediated channels, and how we share, construct, and understand social issues via our mediated lives.

This volume highlights cutting edge scholarship from preeminent scholars in media psychology that examines how media intersect with our social lives in three broad areas: media and the self; media and relationships; and social life in emerging media. The scholars in this volume not only provide insightful and up-to-date examinations of theorizing and research that informs our current understanding of the role of media in our social lives, but they also detail provocative and valuable roadmaps that will form that basis of future scholarship in this crucially important and rapidly evolving media landscape.

Part 1: Media and the Self

1: Emotion, Media, and Our Social World

Robin L. Nabi

2: Media and Identity

Markus Appel, Martina Mara, and Silvana Weber

3: Morality and the Selection, Reception, and Effects of Entertainment Media

Arthur A. Raney and Sophie H. Janicke

4: Media and Spirituality

Srividya Ramasubramanian

5: Integrating Technology and Media and the Social Learning Ecosystem: The Evolving State of Formal Learning

Brittney Huntington and J. Alison Bryant

6: Media and Social Groups

Mary Beth Oliver, Jennifer Hoewe, Erin Ash, Keunyeong Kim, Mun-Young Chung, and Drew Shade

7: The DomesticatilÓõ