Media Psychology: Understanding and Navigating the Media’s Subconscious Influence

Podcast-style audio course - 21 Topics
Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
Iowa State University
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Get science-based answers to your most pressing questions about your kids and the media in this pioneering audio series. Douglas A. Gentile—a parent, preeminent child psychologist, and award-winning professor—teaches you practical strategies for wiser media habits.

In 23 engaging lectures, Dr. Gentile gives you the knowledge you need to foster healthy brain and social development, helping your children become calmer, happier, and more sociable. As you look at cutting-edge scientific discoveries, you will understand how your child’s brain is wired, how it matures, and how the media molds it.

You’ll discover the truth about media violence, the link between screen time and school performance, the surprising ways advertisers influence your child, and much more. With Dr. Gentile’s advice, you’ll learn to harness the positive effects of media and prevent harmful effects like video game addiction.

Taught by one of America’s leading experts, this course is the definitive parent’s guide to children and the media. We live in a world flooded with multimedia influences. Now more than ever, good parenting requires science-bas

Get science-based answers to your most pressing questions about your kids and the media in this pioneering audio series. Douglas A. Gentile—a parent, preeminent child psychologist, and award-winning professor—teaches you practical strategies for wiser media habits.

In 23 engaging lectures, Dr. Gentile gives you the knowledge you need to foster healthy brain and social development, helping your children become calmer, happier, and more sociable. As you look at cutting-edge scientific discoveries, you will understand how your child’s brain is wired, how it matures, and how the media molds it.

You’ll discover the truth about media violence, the link between screen time and school performance, the surprising ways advertisers influence your child, and much more. With Dr. Gentile’s advice, you’ll learn to harness the positive effects of media and prevent harmful effects like video game addiction.

Taught by one of America’s leading experts, this course is the definitive parent’s guide to children and the media. We live in a world flooded with multimedia influences. Now more than ever, good parenting requires science-based knowledge to enable you and your children to make good choices. As Prof. Gentile says, “It’s like knowing how a magic trick is performed.” You will leave the course understanding not only the “whats” of media psychology but also the “hows” and “whys” behind it.

This course was previously published as From Ads to Video Games: The Essential Parents’ Guide to Kids and the Media

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  • Why Should You Care about Children and the Media?
  • The Developing Brain and Media  
  • The Hidden Psychology of Advertising, Part I
  • The Hidden Psychology of Advertising, Part II
  • Children’s Thinking and Developmental Tasks
  • How Humans Learn
  • The Hidden Psychology of Advertising, Part III
  • The Power of Educational and Pro-Social Media
  • The Science of Media Violence
  • The Science of Relationally Aggressive and Sexual Media
  • Violent Video Games as Exemplary Teachers
  • “Just” a Game?
  • Do Violent Video Games Cause School Shootings?
  • Video Game and Internet Addiction
  • Multitasking and the Rise of ADHD
  • Five Dimensions of Video Game Effects
  • Cyber Bullying
  • How to Be a Good Skeptic
  • The Problem and Promise of Media Ratings
  • The Power of Parents
  • Fantasy Versus Reality

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