Understandings of the self and the individual are the product of the shifting social, cultural and technological spaces that both define and destabilize the worlds we inhabit and which make us ‘who we are’. Taking, as its starting point, the interface between the individual and society in the media age, this module explores the way selfhood and identity is constructed, consumed and regulated, and considers the impacts of digital cultures and technologies on the ‘mediatisation of the self’ in a globalising world. The module is organised around four thematic blocks of lectures. Combining these interrelated approaches to media, self and society, the module offers a detailed survey of contemporary issues and debates on selfhood and identity in a global media age.