The Sincerity Game: An Exploratory Study of Erving Goffman’s Dramaturgical Framework in Relation to Interaction and Identity Construction Online

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The Sincerity Game: An Exploratory Study of Erving Goffman’s Dramaturgical Framework in Relation to Interaction and Identity Construction Online

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Self-construction is an intrinsically interactionist process (Leary & Tananey, 2005). The formation and maintenance of identity is socially reliant. Understanding the ways in which interaction changes is therefore vital for recognising how the individual maintains an identity. Contemporary forms of online interaction via social media are, therefore, inescapably implicated in these larger processes. Interactionist theory and Goffman’s (1959) dramaturgical framework are grounded in the obser...

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Masters

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2012

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Baker, Amy Leanna

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7087

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Erving Goffman, Identity, Presentation of Self Online, Artifact Affordances, Dramaturgical Framework, Symbolic Interactionism, Postmodernism, Sincerity, Self Construction, Online Self, Facebook, Social Networks, Mediated Interaction, Affordance Theory, Anthony Giddens, Actor Network Theory, Dramaturgy

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