Media Audiences and Identity: Self-Construction and the Fan Experience

By Steven Bailey

Book Overview

Using a unique combination of cultural studies research, neo-pragmatist philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, the author sheds light on the formation of a social identity and the important role that mass media play in this process. Case studies covering a range of media and communities provide a model for developing a truly explanatory as well as descriptive account of self-media interaction that bridges the two opposing sides of the media audience debate and provides a significant new dimension to notions of 'passive' and 'active' media audiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349522996
• ISBN13: 9781349522996
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"