Biography, Media Consumption, And Identity Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12875352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry Strelitz (Rhodes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 63-82 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077 |
| Publisher | Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18778/1733-8077.4.2.03 |
| OpenAlex | W4206744451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper proposes that the biographical or narrative interview is an important method in exploring the relationship of media consumption to identity formation. The paper takes issue with those theorists who place media consumption at the centre of identity formation processes. Rather, in line with the work of British social theorist John Tomlinson, the paper argues the need to see the relationship between media and culture, in the process of identity formation, as an interplay of mediations between cultureas-lived-experienced and culture-as-representation. On the one hand we have the media, representing the dominant representational aspect of modern culture while on the other we have the lived experience of culture which includes the discursive interaction of families and friends and the ‘material-existential’ experiences of routine life. Our media consumption choices and the meanings we take from the media are shaped by these lived cultural experiences while the media we consume also impacts on how we make sense of these experiences. The paper argues that the narrative or biographical interview is a useful way to explore this interplay of mediations in the process of identity formation
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Consumption (sociology · Epistemology · Existentialism · Identity (music · Identity formation · Literature · Media consumption · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Power
Interpretive Biography
Modernity and media panics
Black Power in South Africa
Cultural Imperialism
News media, political socialization and popular citizenship
Living Room Wars
Global media and symbolic distancing
Fitting In and Sticking Out’
Adolescent Media Use in a Changing Media Environment
The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the politics of nation-building in South Africa
Against Cultural Essentialism
Media consumption and identity formation
Mdantsane, East London's homeland township
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Afterword
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |