INI303H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Grindr, Personal Advertisement, Seekingarrangement
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Manning: there is a long history of matchmaking. Matchmakers were medium who would find an appropriate match for a marital transaction. For papers to attain an ulterior income stream. 1963: ed lewis uses ibm to optimize the meeting potential at dances . 1965: personal ads take off in the us and around the world. The packaging and editing of the self during social interactions to create the desired impression int eh audience. The technology of the self: self-presentation as self-performance. Presentation involves both motivation and construction, meaning that individuals must be motivated to try and control how others see them in consideration of all circumstances, thus, they engage a constriction process to go about doing that identity work. Persona = mask we wear to the world (jung) Deception is a possibility in online personal advertisements. Writing and marketing the self: look at me.
