intended to be read by others, often invite comment, can be interactive in various ways, and almost always have an email address for contact.

from face-to-face interaction and to work out what expressive resources are available. The analysis revealed that judgments made about others are influenced by the S, as well as the person being judged, the situation, and the interaction of the variables. My sampling of homepages for analysis has been very non-systematic. A 'frame analysis' (Goffman, 1974) is, useful here in working out how the self is presented. The same applies, It seems that the only reliable thing that can be used is the informational content of the, text. These ideas have been influential in how sociologists and, psychologists see person-to-person encounters. 0000000851 00000 n There's even more possibility for misrepresentation than in, Email, because Web pages are carefully set up before presentation to the world, and are, So what is the communication involved in putting up a homepage? playing chess or cards). This paper is a basic, exploration of how the presentation of self is actually taking place in a technically, limited, but rapidly spreading, aspect of EC: personal homepages on the World Wide, Between the 50s and the early 80s, Erving Goffman worked to describe the structure of, face-to-face interaction and to account for how that structure was involved in the, interactive tasks of everyday life. These pages can be tongue in check, and there may be links to ego-undermining mundane, information for those who really want to know. This promiscuity of the Web goes deep. As, Goffman's Approach to Face-to-Face Interaction in Drew,P and Wootton,A (1988) Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order Cambridge, Kendon, A (1988) Goffman's Approach to Face-to-Face Interaction in Drew,P and 0000002911 00000 n (Contains 56 references.) Popular discourse describing selfies as the “narcissistic” ² practice of teenagers or a tool of personal empowerment, minimize the structural constraints under which selfies operate as a ubiquitous mode of sociality. establishing contact, because an offer to interact always leaves one open to rebuff. Press, pp 14-40, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life New York: Doubleday Anchor Goffman, Goffman, E (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life New York: Doubleday The kinds of electronic communication I'm discussing here are email and the World Wide. The method of data analysis is using descriptive and bivariate. (The analogy that occurred to me was, with the collections of own work, found objects and reference material that some design, lecturers pin up on their office walls. selfpresentation. Goffman (1981), gives a series of system requirements for interactions. When we finally interact, we both know to some extent where we both are and probably, where the other is coming from. Perhaps what is being presented is the corporate identity, of the family. This will be taken up in more detail later.

Information about the self is explicitly. 5) An advertisement for myself. 'self-promotion' and there is no pretence of the spurious objectivity of 'self-presentation'. The purpose of the page seems to be purely. ), There are design groups advertising on the net who will construct sets of pages to help, you promote your business, and they are evolving styles and conventions which will be, taken up in self-promotions and self-presentations. More mundane information may be left out, so the whole intent of the page is. 'self-promotion' and there is no pretence of the spurious objectivity of 'self-presentation'. Lots of images can be included, but the receiver can always choose not to, receive them, and may not have a system which is able to receive them. More detailed work could tease out where these analogies fail to apply, and so help to. Or are there kinds and categories of, electronic selves which can be presented and maintained in cyberspace, apart from our, corporeal selves? I'm not sure that these. There is a need for intervention programs and education for young people, educators, and parents to address the risks to subjective well-being brought about by online social networks. Web pages provide more opportunity for 'embodiment' though less for interaction. A self emerges all the same.

To talk to you face-to-face, I have to travel to, your town, walk up your street, knock on your door, and maybe get invited into your, kitchen.

That is less likely to work on the Web. (A company report; the Annual Family Circular sent to acquaintances with, 4) This what I think is cool. This is what novelists have used for years to establish character, after all. I've come across these randomly, but an effective presentation might be, one which was likely to be picked up by search engines - if there are people who set, search engines looking for pages from post-doc microbiologists ready to work for less, than $25,000.

0000001747 00000 n appropriate area code and may have to go through various gatekeepers to talk to you. Electronic communication (EC) has established a new range of frames of interaction with, a developing etiquette. We present a vision-based framework that extracts hands from each view and jointly estimates the performed activity based on hand pose and position alone. We conclude by exploring some of the epistemological shifts that these practices indicate.

0000007362 00000 n managed in some way, and that 'given off' which 'leaks through' without any intention. see how they express the social processes and intentions that lie behind them. Those that are most a form of 'self-presentation' are, from people whose services depend on particular personal skill or charisma: designers, and drag artists are two examples I've found. Those others who might be prompted to, find ways to mend your presentation to reduce their own embarrassment in a face-to-face, encounter are unlikely to feel pressure to smooth over the interaction between themselves, and a Web page. looking at, and homepages referred to on other pages. The findings of this study suggest that adolescent emotions are an attractive branch to explore for the purpose of exploring online communication research. Try calling up a succession of homepages and see if they give you hints, about the nature of the people who composed them, even without reading any of the, information given. Based on focus group discussions in two Canadian cities, we explore how young adults describe their selfie experiences and explore three discursive tensions expressed in the transcripts. 0000002120 00000 n It is reasoned that research attempting to explore "person perception" may fail to take into consideration the different frames of reference used in describing others which may affect the results. This project is examining how Aboriginal Australians between the ages of 18-35 use social media to present their identity. analogous to verbal or paper presentations of self. Greater diversity of online friends among the respondents was positively associated with the perception of online self-presentation success. 0000048462 00000 n So, most of the time, we interact in a cosy, conspiracy in which it appears as if everyone knows what they are talking about, can, remember the names of those who they're talking to, and has an appearance and presence, which is pleasant and unexceptionable. It, can be entirely private with unlisted email addresses and call screening or entirely, It could be argued that EC is not interaction in Goffman's sense at all. The homepage provides a, locus for electronic self. Offline social networks have a positive association between the mood, self-esteem, and loneliness of adolescents but not body image. Four tables illustrate data.

This paper is a basic exploration of how the presentation of self is actually taking place in a technically limited, but rapidly spreading, aspect of EC: personal homepages on the World Wide Web. This study used a quantitative approach through a survey of 395 youths in Penang.