Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dark matters / Edward Downs & Aaron R. Boyson -- Propaganda's dark shadow in history, rhetoric, and media / Michael William Pfau & David Charles Gore -- Technologies of mass deception? war of the worlds, Twitter and a history of fake and misleading news in the United States / Nicholas David Bowman & Elizabeth Cohen -- Agenda-setting in the age of online media and social networks: exploring the dangers of a news agenda influenced by subversive and fake information / Anthony M. Limperos & Will Silberman -- Understanding corrosive elements in the political economy of media / Matthew P. McAllister & Lars Stoltzfus-Brown -- Paparazzi, drones & privacy / Kalen M.A. Churcher -- The role of media in perpetuating stereotypes / Meghan S. Sanders -- The dark-side gateway of self-objectification: examining the media's role on the development of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders / Jennifer Stevens Aubrey & Lindsay Roberts -- The bad guys: evil and immorality in media entertainment / Mary Beth Oliver & Arianne Ferchaud -- Specious memesis or natural nemesis? copycat murder / Aaron R. Boyson -- The dark side of social networking sites / Jesse Fox, Guanjin Zhang, & Jessica Frampton -- Love and lies: deception in online dating / Catalina L. Toma & Irene Sarmiento -- Image-based sexual abuse: it's not revenge and it's not porn / Amy Hasinoff -- Child sexual predators' luring communication goes online: reflections and future directions / Loreen N. Olson & Roy Schwartzman -- Cyberbullying: consequences and coping / Matthew W. Savage & Douglas Deiss -- Without consent: the dark side of ignoring the terms of service and privacy policies of social media services / Jonathan A. Obar & Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch -- Smart but nosy: gratifications of ubiquitous media that threaten our privacy / S. Shyam Sundar, Andrew Gambino, & Jinyoung Kim -- Dark shadows in video game effects: concerns about violence, character portrayals, and toxic behavior in digital games / T. Franklin Waddell & James D. Ivory -- Internet gaming disorder: considering problematic internet use as an addiction / Rebecca J. Gilbertson & Kayla M. Walton -- Mobile devices, multitasking, distraction and compulsive tech use / Edward Downs & Jacquelyn Harvey -- Dark side of augmented and virtual reality / Edward Downs & Cheryl M. Bracken -- Leaks are forever: information security and cybercrime / Peter A.H. Peterson & Charern Lee -- Rage against the machine: negative reactions and antisocial -- Interactions with social bots and robots / Patric R. Spence, Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, David Nemer, & Kenneth A. Lachlan -- The killer app: drones and autonomous machines / David J. Gunkel -- A light in the dark: how literacy illuminates the dark side / Edward Downs.

"The 'Dark Side' text is Herculean in its effort to survey for land-mines in a rapidly changing media landscape. The book identifies four dark outcomes related to media and technology use in the 21st century. It balances the dark side with four points of light that are the keys to taking ownership of a media and technology saturated world. The book contains an impressive list of multi-disciplinary experts and cutting-edge researchers who approach 25 separate dark side issues with concise, highly readable chapters, replete with unique recommendations for navigating our mediated present and future. The text is grounded in theory and current research, but has an appeal similar to a page-turning dystopian novel. As a result, it ought to appeal to scholars, students, and even curious lay-readers alike. This book should be the "go-to" text for anyone who is interested in learning what the research says about how we use media and technology, as well as how media and technology use us"-- Provided by publisher.

College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication

Text in English