Constructing the self in a mediated world / edited by Debra Grodin and Thomas R. Lindlof.

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TextSeries: Inquiries in social constructionPublication details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781452247908
1452247900

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

155.2

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BF697.C583

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Self and Mediated Communication / Debra Grodin / 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 / Autumn Grubb-Swetnam -- 12. Nature of the Individual in Communication Research / James A. Anderson / Gerard T. Schoening.

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.

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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.