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<p><P>It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media&#151;whether in video games, action movies, or political comedy skits on <b>Saturday Night Live</b>&#151;are just entertaining fantasies that have no tangible impact on our everyday lives, attitudes, and choices. Not so, says Karen Dill in this lively and provocative book. As much as we may want to deny it, the images, sounds, and narratives that bombard us daily have ample power to alter our realities. <br> 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&#151;for good and ill&#151;that media influence us, but also why we resist believing they do. Vibrantly written and packed with eye-opening examples from everyday life, her wide-ranging analysis encompasses everything from gender and racial stereotyping to social identity, domestic violence, and presidential politics. She discusses the ways that super-thin models and actresses have altered women's self-images, dissects the manipulative strategies of advertising aimed at children and medical consumers, and explains how the "fake news" of

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Author

Karen E. Dill

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199707263

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.9 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14