Constructing the self in a mediated world

Author(s): Grodin, Debra

Journal/Book: Inquiries in social construction.. 1996; Thousand Oaks. Sage Publications. viii, 230.

Abstract: In today's media-saturated world, identities are no longer built solely within the close-knit communities of family, neighborhood, school, and work. Media are part of our world today 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 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.

Note: 95032497 95032497 edited by Debra Grodin and Thomas R. Lindlof. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. The Self and Mediated Communication / Debra Grodin and Thomas R. Lindlof -- 2. All Consuming Selves: Self-Help Literature and Women's Identities / Wendy Simonds -- 3. Terms of Enmeshment: The Cultural Construction of the Mother-Daughter Relationship / Suzanna Danuta Walters -- 4. Desperately Seeking Strategies: Reading in the Postmodern / Mary Ellen Brown -- 5. "Gilt by Association": Talk Show Participants' Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-Esteem / Patricia J. Priest -- 6. Mediating Cultural Selves: Soviet and American Cultures in a Televised "Spacebridge" / Donal Carbaugh -- 7. Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music / Timothy A. Simpson -- 8. Technology and the Self: From the Essential to the Sublime / Kenneth J. Gergen -- 9. Therapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World / Sheila McNamee -- 10. Parallel Lives: Working on Identity in Virtual Space / Sherry Turkle. 11. Seeking a Path of Greatest Resistance: The Self Becoming Method / Thomas R. Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-Swetnam -- 12. The Nature of the Individual in Communication Research / James A. Anderson and Gerard T. Schoening.

Keyword(s): Self.. Self Social aspects.. Identity (Psychology). Individuality.

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