Communication-Information Relationship in Self-Representation

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This article compares two examples of how information is privileged and then used by individuals to build representations of themselves and their lives. The aim is to explore the utility of an analytic vocabulary to describe this privileging process. In the first example, an adolescent's construction of a suicide note shows how individuals, in the hours before they take their own lives, may choose certain types of information and thereby construct self-representations for significant others. The other example focuses on a scientist's research narrative showing how researchers consciously construct descriptions to communicate the value and necessity of their work to peers or to larger audiences.

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