{"product_id":"formative-media-psychoanalysis-and-digital-media-platforms-paperback","title":"Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteffen Krüger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormative Media\u003c\/i\u003e presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms - including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram - and the relational styles that users cultivate and habituate in their interplay with these platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteffen Krüger assesses the formative effects of these platforms, considering \u003ci\u003ewho we are\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ehow we are becoming who we are\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to, as well as mediated through, digital platforms. The book considers Facebook in conversation with the Freudian theory of Eros and the Live\/Love drive, then homes in on the primitive forms of orality, attachment, dependence, and symbiosis in relation to YouTube. Krüger then expands the discussion of orality with an inquiry into the notions of mastery, control, and domination that Google unfolds and activates in its search function, considers narcissism in the context of Instagram, and examines hate speech and aggression on Twitter. The book focuses on the most salient, most talked about aspects, features, and activities of commercial, corporate social media culture to inquire into the formational pushes and pulls of these activities in their contexts for our subjectivities and sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowing in detail how digital media platforms have advanced into central \"socialisation agencies,\" \u003ci\u003eFormative Media\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic, psychocultural, and psychosocial theory, critical digital media studies, and interactional theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteffen Krüger\u003c\/b\u003e is senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests are located at the intersections of media studies and psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344523583795,"sku":"9781032308531","price":81.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/AAoEZkCJHu9781032308531.webp?v=1778725857","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/formative-media-psychoanalysis-and-digital-media-platforms-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}