Constructing the Self in a Mediated World

by Debra Grodin

• ISBN13: 9780803970120
• ISBN10: 0803970129
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-18
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

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.

Table of Contents

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

Self-Help Literature and Women's Identities - Suzanna Danuta Walters

Terms of Enmeshment

The Cultural Construction of the Mother//Daughter Relationship

PART THREE: SELF AND MEDIA PARTICIPATION - Mary Ellen Brown

Desperately Seeking Strategies

Reading in the Postmodern - Patricia Priest

`Gilt by Association'

Talk Show Participants' Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-Esteem - Donal Carbaugh

Mediating Cultural Selves

Soviet and American Cultures in a Televised `Spacebridge' - 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

From the Essential to the Sublime - Sheila McNamee

Therapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World - Sherry Turkle

Parallel Lives

Working on Identity in Virtual Space

PART FIVE: THE MEDIATED SELF AND INQUIRY - Thomas R Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-Swetnam

Seeking a Path of Least Resistance

The Self Becoming Method - James A Anderson and Gerald R Schoening

The Nature of the Individual in Communication Research