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What is Media Psychology?

Media psychologists can be

communicators, researchers, mental health providers, consultants, educators or developers. Media psychology is applicable to a wide variety of industries and occupations that involve the use or development of mediated communications and information technologies.

Media psychology as a field

includes research and applications dealing with all forms of media technologies: traditional and mass media, such as radio, television, film, video, newsprint, magazines, music, and art as well as new and emerging technologies and applications, such as social media, mobile media, interface design, educational technologies, interactive media technologies, and augmented, virtual and blended environments.

Further Reading & Resources

Defining & Describing Media Psychology

By Bernard Luskin, PhD

Media Psychology: A Personal Essay in Definition & Purview

By Stuart Fischoff, PhD

What is Media Psychology? And Why You Should Care

By Pamela Rutledge, PhD, MBA

Overview of Media Psychology in PowerPoint

By Pamela Rutledge, PhD, MBA