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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.
List of contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
The Self and Mediated Communication - Debra Grodin and Thomas R Lindlof
PART TWO: SELF AND MEDIA CONTENT
All Consuming Selves - Wendy Simonds
Self-Help Literature and Women¿s Identities
Terms of Enmeshment - Suzanna Danuta Walters
The Cultural Construction of the Mother/Daughter Relationship
PART THREE: SELF AND MEDIA PARTICIPATION
Desperately Seeking Strategies - Mary Ellen Brown
Reading in the Postmodern
`Gilt by Association¿ - Patricia Priest
Talk Show Participants¿ Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-Esteem
Mediating Cultural Selves - Donal Carbaugh
Soviet and American Cultures in a Televised `Spacebridge¿
Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music - Timothy Simpson
PART FOUR: RELATIONAL SELVES AND THE MEDIATED CONTEXT
Technology and the Self - Kenneth J Gergen
From the Essential to the Sublime
Therapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World - Sheila McNamee
Parallel Lives - Sherry Turkle
Working on Identity in Virtual Space
PART FIVE: THE MEDIATED SELF AND INQUIRY
Seeking a Path of Least Resistance - Thomas R Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-Swetnam
The Self Becoming Method
The Nature of the Individual in Communication Research - James A Anderson and Gerald R Schoening
About the author
Thomas R. Lindlof is a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky. His research and teaching interests focus on the cultural analysis of mediated communication, media audience theory and research, and qualitative research methodology. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly outlets, including Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Social Science Computer Review, and Communication Yearbook. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. He has written or edited six books, including Qualitative Communication Research Methods (with Bryan C. Taylor) and Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars. In 2011 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Broadcast Education Association. He currently resides in Austin, Texas.
Summary
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.
