While violence and the mass media is a topic aggressively delved into by researchers in many fields, altruism has been less covered both in general in recent years as well as in relation to the study of mass media. This paper provides an overview of altruism and establishes three topics of interest to media psychology and future research: media as a tool of altruism, media representation of altruism, and media as altruism.
The author draws upon both historical and modern studies of synaesthesia as well as her own experiences as a synaesthete to explain what this mingling of the senses is, what it is not, and how it ties to media psychology. From the possibility of synaesthesia having led to humans forming sounds, words, and language we are led to an exploration of multiple literacies. Literacy has been historically limited in definition, but found a resurgence of exploration in the 1980s and 1990s as people attempted to broaden it to fit specific technologies. The various aspects of literacy are investigated as well as literacy’s ties to synaesthesia and importance to media psychology.
A mischievous sprite imagined to cause the inexplicable problems in the real and virtual machinery of technology.
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