Constructing the Self in a Mediated World
eBook - PDF

Constructing the Self in a Mediated World

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Constructing the Self in a Mediated World

About this book

In today?s media-saturated world, identities are no longer built solely within the close-knit communities of family, neighborhood, school, and work. Today media are part of our world and therefore play an important role in the formulations of our identities or constructions of self. In a truly postmodern mode, Constructing the Self in a Mediated World not only brings together the usually segregated areas of interpersonal and mass communication but also incorporates works from scholars in sociology, psychology, and women?s studies as well. Each essay examines our understanding of self in a different context of mediated culture within a specific framework of interpretive theories such as critical theory, social constructionist theory, and feminism. This volume provides insights into issues of self and identity in contemporary mediated culture. Designed for advanced students and experienced researchers in communication (both media and interpersonal), sociology, psychology, and women?s studies. Constructing the Self in a Mediated World raises important questions and contributes greatly to its field.

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Yes, you can access Constructing the Self in a Mediated World by Debra Grodin,Thomas R. Lindlof, Debra Mowat, Thomas R. Lindlof in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Part I - Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 - The Self and Mediated Communication
  6. Part II - Self and Media Content
  7. Chapter 2 - All Consuming Selves: Self-Help Literature and Women's Identities
  8. Chapter 3 - Terms of Enmeshment: The Cultural Construction of the Mother-Daughter Relationship
  9. Part III - Self and Media Participation
  10. Chapter 4 - Desperately Seeking Strategies: Reading in the Postmodern
  11. Chapter 5 - "Gilt by Association": Talk Show Participants' Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-Esteem
  12. Chapter 6 - Mediating Cultural Selves: Soviet and American Cultures in a Televised "Spacebridge"
  13. Chapter 7 - Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music
  14. Part IV - Relational Selves and the Mediated Context
  15. Chapter 8 - Technology and the Self: From the Essential to the Sublime
  16. Chapter 9 - Therapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World
  17. Chapter 10 - Parallel Lives: Working on Identity in Virtual Space
  18. Part V - The Mediated Self and Inquiry
  19. Chapter 11 - Seeking a Path of Greatest Resistance: The Self Becoming Method
  20. Chapter 12 - The Nature of the Individual in Communication Research
  21. Index
  22. About the Authors