Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: The Brain on Media 1. Neuromediation: An Ecological Model of Mediated Communication Michael Grabowski 2. Nurturing the Developing Brain of Digital Natives Michael Rich & Farah Qureshi 3. Neurobiology of Teen Brain Development and the Digital Age Jennifer T. Sneider & Marisa M. Silveri 4. Neural Correlates of the Multisensory Film Experience Luis Rocha Antunes 5. The Reverberatory Narrative: Toward Story as a Multisensory Network Dana Coester 6. Embodied Protonarratives Embedded in Systems of Contexts: A Neurocinematic Approach Pia Tikka & Mauri Kaipainen 7. Seeing In, and Out, to the Extended Mind through an EEG Analysis of Page and Screen Reading Robert C. MacDougall 8. On the Origins of Propaganda: Bio-Cultural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cohesion Bob Schapiro & Stanley H. Ambrose Part II: Media on the Brain 9. Mind Control in Hollywood Steven Gibson 10. "My Brain Made Me Do It!": Neuroscience, Criminal Justice, and Media Emilia Musumeci 11. The Golden Voice of Neuroscience: Fact Finding in Western Buddhist Media Jenell Johnson 12. Mindful Media: Representations of the Effects of Mindfulness on the Brain in YouTube Videos Andrée E. C. Betancourt & Elise E. Labbé 13. Selling the Brain: Representation of Neuroscience in Advertising Celia Andreu-Sánchez and Miguel Ángel Martín-Pascual 14. Braining Your Life and Living Your Brain: The Cyborg Gaze and Brain-Images Alexander I. Stingl

About the Author

Michael Grabowski is an Associate Professor of Communication at Manhattan College. His work explores how different forms of mediated communication shape the way people think and act within their symbolic environment. He has won two Emmy Awards and has worked on documentaries, feature films, commercials, music videos, and news.