Includes bibliographical references and index.

Living in the message-saturated world -- Media literacy approach -- Individual's perspective -- Industry perspective on audience -- Children as a special audience -- Proactive perspective on media effects -- Broadening our perspective on media effects -- Development of mass media industries -- The economic game -- The current picture -- Mass media content and reality -- News -- Entertainment -- Advertising -- Mass media interactive games -- Who owns and controls the mass media? -- Privacy -- Piracy -- Violence -- Sports -- Personal strategy for increasing media literacy -- Helping others increase media literacy.