[Air-l] suggestions?

[Denise N. Rall]

Charles wrote:
> 
> This inspired one of my students to ask: are there
> studies, etc., that
> suggest that the new media, by giving us greater
> communication with "the
> Other" works to make us _less_ fearful of the Other,
> and thus, under some
> circumstances at least, _more_ likely to engage in
> aggressive behaviors,


Ok, Charles this is prob. off your topic but it turns
out that some studies indicate that the people treat
media pretty much as they do other people with some
interesting exceptions regarding violence towards
others:

Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass (1996) The Media
Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and
New Media Like Real People and Places
Chicago Press? My copy was from MIT press I thought.

Ok, it's an 'elderly' book but it's got the media
studies all there from social psychology and the
construction of personality based on reactions to
others (threat, opportunity, etc.) I think it could be
a helpful place to start and Reeves & Nass may have
more recent materials out there as well.

Cheers, Denise





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