E-mail: KDill@Fielding.edu or karenedill@gmail.com
Biography: Karen Dill is the Director of the Media Psychology Doctoral Program at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of MO-Columbia in 1997. Dr. Dill publishes in the field of media psychology, studying video games, interactive media, magazines and music with an emphasis on gender and racial stereotyping and aggression. Her research has been widely cited and has been the subject of many media interviews in the US and throughout the world. Her book How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing Through Media Influence is available for order on Amazon.com. Click here for book and chapter abstracts.
Dr. Dill gave expert testimony before Congress on media violence in 2000 and on misogyny in rap music lyrics in 2007. She co-authored a statement on interactive media violence which lead to the APA’s Resolution on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media. She has given invited talks on media psychology at international expert meetings including one in Santiago, Chile and one on Cheju Island, South Korea. In 2008, she presented a theoretical paper on degradation in the media, co-authored with Dr. Melinda Burgess, at the International Society for Research in Aggression (ISRAsociety.org) meeting in Budapest, Hungary.
Dr. Dill writes a blog called How Fantasy Becomes Reality for Psychology Today. She is the editor of the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology (New York, Oxford).
The doctoral program at Fielding Graduate University offers the first Media Psychology Ph.D. in the country. Fielding is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA and Dr. Dill is part of their East Coast cluster, living in North Carolina with her family.
