ms:communication

"an elegant tapestry of quotations, musings, aphorisms, and autobiographical reflections"

and lots of bad music.

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