Fall/Winter 2019 Issue

Social Hour photos Photo Credit: Kathryn Stamoulis.

Social Hour photos Photo Credit: Kathryn Stamoulis.

President: Kathryn Stamoulis; Editor: V. Krishna Kumar; Associate Editor: Kathryn Stamoulis; Consulting Editors: Frank Farley, Joseph Browne, Joanne Broder, Mona Sarshar, Lauren Butler (Student), Victoria Ramsperger; Production Editor: Keith Cooke


President’s Column: Highlights of 2019
Kathryn Stamoulis
My Presidential Year

President-Elect’s Column: Recycled Inspiration and Information Fatigue
V. Krishna Kumar
Tired of inspirational messages?

Past President’s Column: Dopamine Fasting: The Latest Trend From Silicon Valley
June Wilson
Our dependence on technology — is it a good thing?

Council Corner
Christopher J. Ferguson


Featured Articles from Award Winners

When Real News is Fake
Roger Klein
What you see and hear on TV may have fake components!

Youth and Internet: Some Positives, Some Negatives, a Brief Perspective
Frank Farley


Other Featured Articles

Interdisciplinary Research on Cyber Security and Privacy
Robert W. Proctor, Isis Chong, & Aiping Xiong
Cyber Security and Privacy

Media’s Role in Public Health: Suicide and Mass Shootings
Jared Boot
Improving reporting to reduce stigma about mental illness


From Our Film Critics

Friendship With Fred
Frank Farley
A Review of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

Mental Illness Is No Joke
Frank Farley, Kristyn Carrell, Bradley Dinger, Madison McClary, Alexa Micozzi, Wande Sogbesan, Angelo Soriano, & Melissa Steinheiser
A Review of “Joker”


From Our Book Critic

Doing the Best with What Is Left of One’s Body, Mind, and Spirit
V. Krishna Kumar
A Reconciliation with the Traumatized self and the world

Member News

Division 46’s Chicago Convention and Social Hour Photos

Index of Articles Published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture (2019, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4)