How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Information and Entertainment by Karen E. Dill-Shackleford

By Karen E. Dill-Shackleford

From smartphones to social media, from streaming video clips to health bands, our units carry us details and leisure all day lengthy, forming an intimate a part of our lives. Their ubiquity represents an incredible shift in human event, and even if we regularly carry our units expensive, we don't continuously absolutely enjoy how their approximately consistent presence can effect our lives for higher and for worse.

In this revised and multiplied version of How fable turns into Reality, social psychologist Karen E. Dill-Shackleford explains what the most recent technological know-how tells us approximately how our units effect our options, emotions, and behaviors. In enticing, conversational prose, she discusses either the advantages and the hazards that include our present point of media saturation. The wide-ranging dialog explores Avatar, Mad Men, Grand robbery Auto, and comedian Con to handle serious matters akin to media violence, portrayals of social teams, political assurance, and fandom. Her conclusions will empower readers to make our favourite assets of leisure and data paintings for us and never opposed to us.

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