COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Performativity

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 201
• Professor: Dawn Johnson

Document Summary

Dramaturgical model (cid:224: links ordinary social interaction to theatrical performance (focusing on controlling the drama, the roles the actors take in interaction are performances that are carefully crafted to project an image to the audience, the scenes must be managed correctly for the drama to succeed. Performance ethnography (cid:224: the method of interpreting actions to generate understanding in terms of the people you are studying, a researcher won"t make observation in their terms, want to see how the people they are studying are seeing themselves, rather than how outsiders see them, requires a desire to immerse themselves in the community. It is a continuous performance: the reiteration of a norm or set of norms to communicate identity, butler gender is something we do, not something we are, she talks about how we perform gender daily, postures, voices, word choices we consciously and unconsciously do to display our gender identity, examples, hyper masculinity and femininity (drag queens and other extremes)