Preface
Chapter 1: Social Media and Growing Public Concern
Chapter 2: Psychology Theory, Children and Social Media
Chapter 3: Social Media Use and Self Image
Chapter 4: Social Media, Sex and Pornography
Chapter 5: Social Media and Personal Harm
Chapter 6: Social Media and Causing Harm to Others
Chapter 7: Social Media, Social Withdrawal and Loneliness
Chapter 8: Social Media and Cognitive Performance
Chapter 9: Social Media and Mental Health
Chapter 10: Personality and Social Media
Chapter 11: Control, Regulation and Protection of Young People
Biography
Barrie Gunter is Emeritus Professor in Media at the University of Leicester (Department of Communication, Media and Sociology). He has written/co-written and edited/co-edited around 80 books and over 500 book chapters, learned journal papers, newspaper and magazine articles, and technical reports across his career. Most of his work centers on studies of the conventional mass media and new digital communications and media outputs. His recent books for Routledge include The Psychology of the Selfie (2022), a four-volume series about the psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022 and 2023), The Psychology of Binge Watching TV (Routledge, 2024), The BBC and The Public (2025, Palgrave Macmillan) and the forthcoming The Psychology of Public Belief in Unexplained Phenomena: Close Encounters, Extraterrestrials and UFOs (Routledge, 2026).
