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References
Goffman, Erving. 1969. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.Erickson, Tom. 1996. The WWW as Social Hypertext. Communications of the ACM.Chandler, D. & D. Roberts-Young. The Construction of Identity in the Personal Home Pages of Adolescents (web site)Döring, Nicola. 2002. Personal Home Pages on the Web: A Review of Research. JCMC 7 (3)
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• How would you describe yourself if you were arranging to meet someone you didn’t know?
• Easy/difficult?• What extra resources would you
have liked?
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Some focal situations:• Lonely hearts/dating service • Job interviews• Parties• Arranging to meet an unknown person
and giving a description of yourself• Writing to an unknown correspondent• Phoning someone you’ve never met
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Imagine you meet these people at a party. What are they telling you about themselves and how?
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Some resources:• Intrinsic appearance (height, weight,
age, (dis)ability…) • Modifiable appearance (hair, clothes,
makeup, things you carry…)• Things you do with your body
(Posture, expression, gesture, proximity…)
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Objects (cars, houses, décor, books & CDs, gadgets…)
• Language (content, style, vocabulary, accent, interactional style…)
• Behaviours and attitudes (holidays, hobbies, pastimes)
• Work related features (profession, status, wealth…)
Presentation of Self on Web
“The Web is one of the first venues where individuals can construct portrayals of themselves using information rather than consumer goods as their palette”
Erickson, 1996.
Presentation of Self on Web
http://www.dmichael.co.uk
http://www.thecolefamily.com
http://www.geocities.com/kirman2069/sch8.html
Resources for Presentation of Self on Web
• Language• Written style• Structure (already conventional?)• Graphic design• Multimedia elements• Content• Links