Constructing the Self in a Mediated World
Edited by:
- Debra Grodin
- Thomas R. Lindlof - University of Kentucky, USA
Volume:
16
Other Titles in:
Mass Communication (General)
Mass Communication (General)
February 1996 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In today's world, identities are no longer built solely within communities of family, neighbourhood, school and work - the media plays an important role in formulating our identities or constructions of self.
This volume brings together the usually segregated areas of interpersonal and mass communication, and also incorporates work from sociology, psychology and women's studies. Each contributor examines our understanding of self both within a specific context of mediated culture and within a specific theoretical framework, such as critical theory, social constructionism and feminism.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Debra Grodin and Thomas R Lindlof
The Self and Mediated Communication
PART TWO: SELF AND MEDIA CONTENT
Wendy Simonds
All Consuming Selves
Suzanna Danuta Walters
Terms of Enmeshment
PART THREE: SELF AND MEDIA PARTICIPATION
Mary Ellen Brown
Desperately Seeking Strategies
Patricia Priest
`Gilt by Association'
Donal Carbaugh
Mediating Cultural Selves
Timothy Simpson
Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music
PART FOUR: RELATIONAL SELVES AND THE MEDIATED CONTEXT
Kenneth J Gergen
Technology and the Self
Sheila McNamee
Therapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World
Sherry Turkle
Parallel Lives
PART FIVE: THE MEDIATED SELF AND INQUIRY
Thomas R Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-Swetnam
Seeking a Path of Least Resistance
James A Anderson and Gerald R Schoening
The Nature of the Individual in Communication Research