Constructing the Self in a Mediated World

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803970129
• ISBN13: 9780803970120
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"