COMS 401 Lecture Notes - Communication

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 401
• Professor: Angie Chiang

Document Summary

Multiple identities can have a therapeutic value. Same way you have multiple windows open in your browser, you"re aware of all of them but you"re only using one at a time. Liberating in a way as they may offer freedom from social conventions and norms. Narrows the gap between multiple and ideal selves. Situated among a network of social contacts and a set of relations to consumer culture. 3 profiles: the visual self pictures and profile pictures, the cultural self things you like" or associations with cultural entities and features, the explicit self the about me" section, status updates, etc.