by 553866pwpadmin | Dec 15, 2025 | Fall/Winter 2025, Featured Article, Film/TV Review
Featured Article How The Summer I Turned Pretty Used the Love Triangle as a Recipe for Success This past July, the final season of the teen romantic drama show entitled The Summer I Turned Pretty (TSITP)—featuring a conflict-ridden but nonetheless endearing summer...
by 553866pwpadmin | Dec 15, 2025 | Fall/Winter 2025, Featured Article, Uncategorized
Featured Article The Current State of Parasocial Theory Recent years have seen a number of publications that focus on parasocial theory. Indeed, parasocial was one of the finalists for Oxford’s “word of the year” in 2023. [Editor’s note: Parasocial was selected by...
by 553866pwpadmin | Dec 15, 2025 | Fall/Winter 2025, Featured Article, Popular Media Culture, Uncategorized
Featured Article The Media Psychology of Brain-Computer Interface: A Call to Action Media psychology sits at the intersection of technology, identity, and communication. Brain-computer interface (BCI) is redefining human-robot communication. BCI now uses “black box”...
by 553866pwpadmin | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Article
Lesly R. Krome, PhDSt. Mary’s Universitylkrome@stmarytx.edu Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was released September 26, 2024 to the Nintendo Switch as a single-player game. Rated “E” for everyone, the game exists within the realm of Hyrule, where...
by 553866pwpadmin | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Article
Kristen LeerUniversity of Michigan-Ann Arborkaleer@umich.edu Death and the emotional aftermath of losing loved ones is a natural human experience. But the digitalization of grief is, to say the least, nuanced. Digital grieving involves using social media and other...
by 553866pwpadmin | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Article
Alyona (Alena) Rogojina, MAIowa State Universityrogojina@iastate.edu Research into “media multitasking” (Beuckels et al., 2021), an umbrella term for using multiple forms of technology at once or using technology while engaging in non-mediated activities, increased...
