Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Ryan, Kathleen M.; Macey, Deborah A.; Aho, Tanja N.; Betancourt, Andrée E. C.; Duvall, Amy C.; Hall, Jennifer G.; Johnson, Michael Jr; Kahlenberg, Susan G.
Ryan, Kathleen M.; Macey, Deborah A.; Aho, Tanja N.; Betancourt, Andrée E. C.; Duvall, Amy C.; Hall, Jennifer G.; Johnson, Michael Jr; Kahlenberg, Susan G.; McClain, Amanda S.; McKernan, Brian; Miller, Cynthia J.; Piotrowski, Marcelina; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin; Rosenberg, Leah A.; Staton, David; Stiffler, Ellen E.; Webb, Lynne M.; Wright, Robin Redmond; Wu, Jingsi Christina
Media scholars attempt to assess how the media informs and shapes the way we view our lives. This book explores the multiple influences of television in a media landscape that is becoming increasingly fractured. The authors look at television's pedagogical role across the life cycle, and argue that despite a world of multiple screens and competing interests "everything I know about myself, I learned from television