Debra Grodin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6517867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Grodin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Grodin |
| SIGNATURE | GRODIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing the Self in a Mediated World
In today's media-saturated world, identities are no longer built solely within the close-knit communities of family, neighborhood, school, and work. Media are part of our world today 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, b…
Women Reading Self-Help: Themes of Separation and Connection
This essay examines women's use of psychological self-help books in the context of everyday life. The meaning readers assign to self-help is described in terms of larger struggles in contemporary culture related to autonomy and connection. Readers engage self-help in active and empowering ways, building on women's tradition of managing life amidst discontinuity. Women's disappointments with the genre reflect yearnings that self-help does not adeq…
Self‐help books and the construction of reading: Readers and reading in textual representation
Reading therapeutic self‐help books requires that readers adopt particular reading strategies and positions in regard to texts. In a reader‐response analysis of Women Who Love Too Much, the authors construct an account of the ways in which this text attempts to control these aspects of reading. Self‐help books contest the interpretive prerogatives of readers through a construction of reading: a textual version of readers’ interpretive activities …
The interpreting audience: The therapeutics of self‐help book reading
Since the “second wave” of the women's movement, psychological self‐help books have been an important resource for many women regarding issues of relationships and identity. This audience study examines how the use of self‐help books is enacted in everyday life, and how this use illuminates aspects of women's lives in contemporary America. Although the genre has been criticized for its recipe format, readers use self‐help books in complex, and of…
When Media Use Can't Be Observed: Some Problems and Tactics of Collaborative Audience Research
Thomas R. Lindlof, Debra Grodin; When Media Use Can't Be Observed: Some Problems and Tactics of Collaborative Audience Research, Journal of Communication
Self‐help books and the construction of reading: Readers and reading in textual representation
Reading therapeutic self‐help books requires that readers adopt particular reading strategies and positions in regard to texts. In a reader‐response analysis of Women Who Love Too Much, the authors construct an account of the ways in which this text attempts to control these aspects of reading. Self‐help books contest the interpretive prerogatives of readers through a construction of reading: a textual version of readers’ interpretive activities …
Women Reading Self-Help: Themes of Separation and Connection
This essay examines women's use of psychological self-help books in the context of everyday life. The meaning readers assign to self-help is described in terms of larger struggles in contemporary culture related to autonomy and connection. Readers engage self-help in active and empowering ways, building on women's tradition of managing life amidst discontinuity. Women's disappointments with the genre reflect yearnings that self-help does not adeq…
When Media Use Can't Be Observed: Some Problems and Tactics of Collaborative Audience Research
Thomas R. Lindlof, Debra Grodin; When Media Use Can't Be Observed: Some Problems and Tactics of Collaborative Audience Research, Journal of Communication
The interpreting audience: The therapeutics of self‐help book reading
Since the “second wave” of the women's movement, psychological self‐help books have been an important resource for many women regarding issues of relationships and identity. This audience study examines how the use of self‐help books is enacted in everyday life, and how this use illuminates aspects of women's lives in contemporary America. Although the genre has been criticized for its recipe format, readers use self‐help books in complex, and of…
Self‐help books and the construction of reading: Readers and reading in textual representation
Reading therapeutic self‐help books requires that readers adopt particular reading strategies and positions in regard to texts. In a reader‐response analysis of Women Who Love Too Much, the authors construct an account of the ways in which this text attempts to control these aspects of reading. Self‐help books contest the interpretive prerogatives of readers through a construction of reading: a textual version of readers’ interpretive activities …
Women Reading Self-Help: Themes of Separation and Connection
This essay examines women's use of psychological self-help books in the context of everyday life. The meaning readers assign to self-help is described in terms of larger struggles in contemporary culture related to autonomy and connection. Readers engage self-help in active and empowering ways, building on women's tradition of managing life amidst discontinuity. Women's disappointments with the genre reflect yearnings that self-help does not adeq…
Constructing the Self in a Mediated World
In today's media-saturated world, identities are no longer built solely within the close-knit communities of family, neighborhood, school, and work. Media are part of our world today 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, b…
Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Everyday life (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)