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

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.

• | Author: S. Bailey
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 140394542X
• | ISBN-13: 9781403945426