CHAPTER 3

Research Resources
Check out the following contemporary readings in communication at your library. (Hint: These are good sources to start with if you are asked to write a research paper!)

Andrejevic, M. (2001). "The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 19: 230-148.

Baldwin, M. W., and J. R. P. Keelan. (1999). "Interpersonal Expectations as a Function of Self-Esteem and Sex." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16: 822-833.

Boon, S. D., and C. D. Lomore. (2001). "Admirer-Celebrity Relationships Among Young Adults: Explaining Perceptions of Celebrity Influence on Identity." Human Communication Research, 27: 432-465.

Campbell, J. E. (2003). "Always Use a Modem: Frames of Erotic Play and Performance on Cyberspace." Electronic Journal of Communication, 13.

DeFrancisco, V. L., and A. Chatham-Carpenter. (2000). "Self in Community: African American Women's Views of Self-Esteem." The Howard Journal of Communication, 11: 73-92.

Ford, L. A., and R. D. Crabtree. (2002). "Telling, Re-Telling and Talking About Telling: Disclosure and/as Surviving Incest." Women's Studies in Communication, 25: 53-87.

Links to Resources on the Web
* On October 1, 2003, GroupHug.us was launched. GroupHug.us gives Internet users an opportunity to post confessions, anonymously, in a nonjudgmental environment. Over the past year, more than 150,000 confessions have appeared on the site. Take some time to read through some of these confessions. What do you think prompts individuals to confess past transgressions on the Internet? How might the information included in Chapter 3 help us understand the motivation for doing this in cyberspace rather than in face-to-face interpersonal interactions? Is there anything you want to confess anonymously in cyberspace?

* For those who have never completed a self-esteem test, you may want to visit Queendom.com. The test only takes about 10 minutes, and, as non-members, you can get back abridged results that may provide some interesting insight.