SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Socalled, Prosumer, Laurel Ptak
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We create meaning and identities through social interaction with others. Erving goffman: dramaturgical theory: we all engage in impression management to present ourselves in certain ways. In any given social situation, we manage how people view us. Marche argued that facebook is making us lonelier: less personal, physical interaction but more online interaction. Curating the exhibition of the self has become a 24/7 occupation (marche 2012) Cybertypes: the distinctive ways that the internet propagates, disseminates, and commodifies images of race and racism (nakamura 2002:3: people"s online identities largely conform to stereotypes of the offline identities. We still follow social scripts (race, gender, norms) online. Approaches society as a power struggle between lower and upper classes. Examines how powerful groups maintain their power, as well as how they"re resisted. Facebook as unpaid labor: facebook has ads, companies/celebrities promote themselves on facebook.
