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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 Mc Namee
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
Über den Autor
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.
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