...This chapter is based on a discourse analysis of 927 posts from twenty blogs of terminally ill authors. It focuses on the ways that selfhood gets constructed and reconstructed in the face of a terminal illness via the act of blogging, and compares those processes to earlier forms of life-writing...

...—the chapter considers analyses of modern, mediated selfhood and delves into the field of scholarly critiques of reality television that are based largely on textual analysis of television shows. It also draws on conversations with audiences about their engagements with makeover television. The Biggest Loser...

... in relation to black and brown bodies. The chapter then introduces the concept of brown jouissance as a way to think about race in concert with psychoanalysis and in order to think about projects of selfhood in relation to fleshiness. Ultimately, the chapter argues that Billie #21...

... toward selfhood, audience research reaffirms this attitude and performance in ways that echo the selfhood privileged in makeover shows. Audience research neither demonstrates that audiences are free from textual influences through their reflexive practices, nor provides the opportunity for participants...

...This chapter examines young rural-to-urban migrant women's use of mobile phones for expanding and enriching various types of social relationships. It situates this discussion within Chinese concepts of selfhood and guanxi (relationship) and relates these to Pierre Bourdieu's notion...

... that is theorized as brown jouissance. Brown jouissance is a political and philosophical intervention into what constitutes selfhood, knowledge, and fleshiness. The book works through several examples of brown jouissance in the work of Lyle Ashton Harris, Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Xandra...

... and proliferating assertions of identities that were grounded variously in race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion. Furthermore, the nature of selfhood was coming to be understood in new ways. America’s Mainspring and the Great Society A Pick and Shovel Outlook Williams undercover investigations Williams...

..., and health becomes a defining characteristic of responsible selfhood and citizenship. breastfeeding children environmental hazards Goodnight Moon Wise health Hurd Clement Karbo Karen Lupton Deborah New York Times risk risk culture day care diabetes Gray David mammograms nature and the “natural...

... family mealtimes mealtimes family personhood selfhood autonomy children corn syrup high fructose food food habits monitoring of high fructose corn syrup Izquierdo Carolina monitoring Nazism metaphor parenting Paugh Amy settings social social settings talk food Aronson Matt awareness...