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Media Audiences and Identity

Self-Construction in the Fan Experience

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Media, Culture and the Self

    • Steve Bailey
    Pages 1-14

  3. Media and Self-Construction: Theoretical Issues

    • Steve Bailey
    Pages 15-52

  4. Every Freak Needs a Show: Polyvalent Subjectivity and a Local Underground Film Scene

    • Steve Bailey
    Pages 53-100

  5. ‘I Believe in Me’: Self-Affirmation in the ‘Kiss Army’

    • Steve Bailey
    Pages 101-156

  6. Screen Subjects and Cyber-Subjects: The Case of Futurama

    • Steve Bailey
    Pages 157-201

  7. Conclusion: Underground Hybridity, Popular Piety and Virtual Irony as Three Modes of Mediated Selfhood

    • Steve Bailey
    Pages 202-214

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 215-228
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About this book

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.

About the author

STEVE BAILEY is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Information Age at York University in Toronto, Canada. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including Popular Music and Society, Communication Review, Velvet Light Trap and Discourse of Sociological Practice.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Media Audiences and Identity

  • Book Subtitle: Self-Construction in the Fan Experience

  • Authors: Steve Bailey

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501119

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4542-6Published: 08 September 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52299-6Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50111-9Published: 08 September 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 228

  • Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Media Studies, Cultural Studies

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