Constructing the self in a mediated world

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 McNamee 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