Thomas R. Lindlof is a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky.  His research and teaching interests focus on the cultural analysis of mediated communication, media audience theory and research, and qualitative research methodology. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly outlets, including Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Social Science Computer Review, and Communication Yearbook. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. He has written or edited six books, including Qualitative Communication Research Methods (with Bryan C. Taylor) and Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars.  In 2011 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Broadcast Education Association.  He currently resides in Austin, Texas.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONThe Self and Mediated Communication - Debra Grodin and Thomas R LindlofPART TWO: SELF AND MEDIA CONTENTAll Consuming Selves - Wendy SimondsSelf-Help Literature and Women′s IdentitiesTerms of Enmeshment - Suzanna Danuta WaltersThe Cultural Construction of the Mother/Daughter RelationshipPART THREE: SELF AND MEDIA PARTICIPATIONDesperately Seeking Strategies - Mary Ellen BrownReading in the Postmodern`Gilt by Association′ - Patricia PriestTalk Show Participants′ Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-EsteemMediating Cultural Selves - Donal CarbaughSoviet and American Cultures in a Televised `Spacebridge′Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music - Timothy SimpsonPART FOUR: RELATIONAL SELVES AND THE MEDIATED CONTEXTTechnology and the Self - Kenneth J GergenFrom the Essential to the SublimeTherapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World - Sheila McNameeParallel Lives - Sherry TurkleWorking on Identity in Virtual SpacePART FIVE: THE MEDIATED SELF AND INQUIRYSeeking a Path of Least Resistance - Thomas R Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-SwetnamThe Self Becoming MethodThe Nature of the Individual in Communication Research - James A Anderson and Gerald R Schoening

Thomas R. Lindlof is a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky.  His research and teaching interests focus on the cultural analysis of mediated communication, media audience theory and research, and qualitative research methodology. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly outlets, including Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Social Science Computer Review, and Communication Yearbook. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. He has written or edited six books, including Qualitative Communication Research Methods (with Bryan C. Taylor) and Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars.  In 2011 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Broadcast Education Association.  He currently resides in Austin, Texas.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONThe Self and Mediated Communication - Debra Grodin and Thomas R LindlofPART TWO: SELF AND MEDIA CONTENTAll Consuming Selves - Wendy SimondsSelf-Help Literature and Women′s IdentitiesTerms of Enmeshment - Suzanna Danuta WaltersThe Cultural Construction of the Mother/Daughter RelationshipPART THREE: SELF AND MEDIA PARTICIPATIONDesperately Seeking Strategies - Mary Ellen BrownReading in the Postmodern`Gilt by Association′ - Patricia PriestTalk Show Participants′ Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-EsteemMediating Cultural Selves - Donal CarbaughSoviet and American Cultures in a Televised `Spacebridge′Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music - Timothy SimpsonPART FOUR: RELATIONAL SELVES AND THE MEDIATED CONTEXTTechnology and the Self - Kenneth J GergenFrom the Essential to the SublimeTherapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World - Sheila McNameeParallel Lives - Sherry TurkleWorking on Identity in Virtual SpacePART FIVE: THE MEDIATED SELF AND INQUIRYSeeking a Path of Least Resistance - Thomas R Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-SwetnamThe Self Becoming MethodThe Nature of the Individual in Communication Research - James A Anderson and Gerald R Schoening

Thomas R. Lindlof is a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky.  His research and teaching interests focus on the cultural analysis of mediated communication, media audience theory and research, and qualitative research methodology. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly outlets, including Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Social Science Computer Review, and Communication Yearbook. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. He has written or edited six books, including Qualitative Communication Research Methods (with Bryan C. Taylor) and Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars.  In 2011 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Broadcast Education Association.  He currently resides in Austin, Texas.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONThe Self and Mediated Communication - Debra Grodin and Thomas R LindlofPART TWO: SELF AND MEDIA CONTENTAll Consuming Selves - Wendy SimondsSelf-Help Literature and Women′s IdentitiesTerms of Enmeshment - Suzanna Danuta WaltersThe Cultural Construction of the Mother/Daughter RelationshipPART THREE: SELF AND MEDIA PARTICIPATIONDesperately Seeking Strategies - Mary Ellen BrownReading in the Postmodern`Gilt by Association′ - Patricia PriestTalk Show Participants′ Televisually Enhanced Status and Self-EsteemMediating Cultural Selves - Donal CarbaughSoviet and American Cultures in a Televised `Spacebridge′Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music - Timothy SimpsonPART FOUR: RELATIONAL SELVES AND THE MEDIATED CONTEXTTechnology and the Self - Kenneth J GergenFrom the Essential to the SublimeTherapy and Identity Construction in a Postmodern World - Sheila McNameeParallel Lives - Sherry TurkleWorking on Identity in Virtual SpacePART FIVE: THE MEDIATED SELF AND INQUIRYSeeking a Path of Least Resistance - Thomas R Lindlof and Autumn Grubb-SwetnamThe Self Becoming MethodThe Nature of the Individual in Communication Research - James A Anderson and Gerald R Schoening