Fantasy and reality: a primer on media and social construction -- Challenges and opportunities of growing up in a media-saturated world -- Media violence: scholarship versus salesmanship -- Seeing through and seeing beyond media visions of race and gender -- Issues in media and social learning: rap music, beauty and domestic violence -- Advertising, consumerism, and health -- Get with the programming: media messages about who you are -- The social psychology of political coverage -- From the passenger's seat to the driver's seat.