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Select Publications and Presentations of Interest ~ Karen E. Dill
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In April of 2008, Grand Theft Auto IV was released. A student wrote me and asked if I knew they named a car after me in the game. To the guys at Rockstar - I have to admit, it's pretty funny. Um, thanks for thinking of me? Click here for the video of the car, aptly (ahem!) named Karin Dilettante. Here's an advertisement for the Karin Dilettante.
Effects of Exposure to Sex-Stereotyped Video Game Characters on Tolerance of Sexual Harassment by Karen E. Dill, Brian P. Brown and Michael A. Collins (2008) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Video game characters and the socialization of gender roles: Young people's perceptions mirror sexist media depictions by Karen E. Dill & Kathryn L. Thill (2007), Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
You're My Bitch: Crude and Degrading Treatment of Women in Hardcore Rap Through The Eyes of the Predominantly White Target Audience by Burgess, Dill & Wright - (in press) with NovaScience - Chapter in the book Gender Roles: Conflicts, Behavior and Attitudes
Playing with Prejudice: The Prevalence and Consequences of Racial Stereotypes in Videogames by Burgess, Dill, Stermer, Burgess and Brown - under review
Towards a Theory of Media and Aggressive Degradation: Integrating the Literatures on Social Biases and Aggression in the Domain of Media Psychology - Karen E. Dill & Melinda C. R. Burgess, (in press) for the inaugural edition of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, published by Chapel Hill Press
Media images as positive and negative exemplars of race: Evoking Obama or videogame characters changes outcomes for Black men by Dill & Burgess, under review
Dr. Dill gave expert testimony about the effects of stereotypes in the media before a US House of Representatives subcommittee on September 25, 2007. The hearing was entitled, From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images. Clicking on the hearing name will take you to the US House website, where you can read the complete written testimony. APA Monitor article Stereotypes Through the Stereo.
American magazine coverage of domestic violence: Reflecting on 30 years of the public dialogue about intimate abuse by Kathryn P. Thill and Karen E. Dill - under contract with Greenwood Press to be published in 2008 in Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships edited by Evan Stark and Eve S. Buzawa
Do Anti-Social Video Games Foster Sexism and Violence Against Women?: Research on Sexist and Pro-Rape Attitudes Among Gamers. This is a book chapter under contract with Greenwood Press to be published in 2008 in Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships edited by Evan Stark and Eve S. Buzawa
Violent Video Games: Rehearsing Aggression in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Carll, Bushman, Dill, Funk and D. Singer (2007)
Children at Play? by Dill (2005) in Human Development
Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors in the Laboratory and in Life by Anderson & Dill (2000) in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Violence, Sex, Race and Age in Popular Video Games: A Content Analysis by Dill, Gentile, Richter & Dill (2005)
The proliferation of media violence and its economic underpinnings by Bartholow, Dill, Anderson & Lindsay (2003)
Video Game Violence: A Review of the Empirical Literature by Dill & Dill (1998) in Aggression and Violent Behavior
Violent video games increase aggression and violence by Anderson, Bushman, and Dill (2005) This is a position paper drafted for the APA (Division 46) in preparation for the above statement on violence in video games and interactive media.
Click here for Science and Politics, which Dr. Dill presented at the International Expert Meeting for ICT (Information and Computer Technology) and Education at Cheju National University in South Korea.
Dr. Dill attended the Expert Meeting on Education and Video Games in Santiago, Chile in October, 2007 as an invited speaker. Click here for her presentation. For more information, see the web page on Dr. Dill hosted by the Women's Resource Center, where she is a member of the board of directors.
The Dark and Light Sides of Video Games and Interactive Technologies - Presentation on October 24th at the 21st Century Technologies Conference. For conference information, click here.
Power Play: The Psychological Meaning of TV and Video Game Violence Presentation at the 2nd Annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference, March, 2007
NC Youth Legislative Assembly Presentation, March, 2007
Video Games and Women's Issues Presentation at National Summit on Video Games and Public Policy
Stand Up! Stand Out! National Kappa Delta sorority series to empower young women. Presentation by Karen Dill and sociologist Beth Wright
Podcasts of Dr. Dill's Charlotte Talks interviews on Charlotte's NPR Station, 90.3, WFAE. The first podcast is a show-long interview about Dr. Dill's research on stereotyping and aggression in video games. The second is a ten minute interview on a program about high tech toys for Christmas.
Dr. Dill's 2000 Congressional Testimony, related links: Psychport news story, Health groups directly link media to child violence from CNN, ABCNews: Groups link media to child violence.
Article in Charlotte Observer, 2005
Professor, Alumna Recognized in Profiles magazine, Fall, 2007; Newspaper article about my co-author Kathryn (Phillips) Thill.
Recent newspaper article about my new Guitar Hero research with Carlo Fabricatore and Ximena Lopez.