ms:communication

Identity is a multi-faceted brand, differentiating itself for a target demographic.

I'm interested in the interactions of mediated culture and psychological constructions of the self, obsessed with mental disorders and psychology while being painfully aware of my own inadequacies. I am a prototypical non-conformist with a vaguely leftist doctrine of beliefs. I'm guiltily self-absorbed and I quietly compete with others for brief moments of self-aggrandizing brilliance. I'm a slave to the capitalist dogma I spend every moment of my waking life bitching about. Also, I'm an up-talker?

Currently, I'm a graduate student in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. My research interests encompass many areas of media studies and psychology:

• the role of the internet on everyday life
• the way increasingly mediated lifestyles change social relations
• psychosocial uses and effects of media on identity construction among adolescents and young adults