Constructing the Self in a Mediated World [Paperback]

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.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.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
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