Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Media, Culture and The Self Media and Self-Construction: Theoretical Issues Every Freak Needs a Show: Polyvalent Subjectivity and a Local Underground Film Scene 'I Believe in Me': Self-Affirmation in the Kiss Army Screen Subjects and Cyber-Subjects: The Case of Futurama Conclusion: Underground Hybridity, Popular Piety and Virtual Irony as Three Modes of Mediated Selfhood Works Cited

About the Author

STEVE BAILEY is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Information Age at York University in Toronto, Canada. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including Popular Music and Society, Communication Review, Velvet Light Trap and Discourse of Sociological Practice.