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Title: Personal Home Pages: the Presentation of Self in Virtual Life


1
Personal Home Pages the Presentation of Self in
Virtual Life
  • LM350 Computer Mediated Communication

2
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)

3
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • How would you describe yourself if you were
    arranging to meet someone you didnt know?
  • Easy/difficult?
  • What extra resources would you have liked?

4
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 youve never met

5
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Some focal places
  • Workspace (for office workers and so on)

6
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Some focal places
  • Teenage/student bedrooms

7
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Some focal places
  • Vehicles

8
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Some focal places
  • Homes in general

9
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Imagine you meet these people at a party. What
    are they telling you about themselves and how?

10
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)

11
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)

12
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.

13
Presentation of Self on Web
  • http//www.dmichael.co.uk
  • http//www.thecolefamily.com
  • http//www.geocities.com/kirman2069/sch8.html

14
Resources for Presentation of Self on Web
  • Language
  • Written style
  • Structure (already conventional?)
  • Graphic design
  • Multimedia elements
  • Content
  • Links

15
Whats the attraction?
  • Can construct identity separate from any aspect
    of physical appearance, disability, age, accent
    and so on
  • Identity constructed out of content links, plus
    mastery of the medium
  • Low cost altruism
  • Human urge to make ourselves known to other
    people
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