All the world wide web's a stage: The performance of identity in online social networks

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume14
dc.contributor.authorPearson E
dc.date.available2009-01-01
dc.date.issued2009-01-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses how ideas of performance can be used to conceptualize the play of identity formation on social networking sites (SNS). Linking Goffman's theories of social performance with Granovetter's notion of the social tie, this paper will argue that identities on SNS are deliberately constructed performances that straddle the frontstage and the backstage, the public and the private, and in doing so both support and rely upon webs of social connections which engage with fluid or playful identity constructions.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.identifier.citationFirst Monday, 2009, 14 (3)
dc.identifier.doi10.5210/fm.v14i3.2162
dc.identifier.elements-id270615
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1396-0466
dc.relation.isPartOfFirst Monday
dc.relation.urihttp://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2162/2127
dc.subject.anzsrc0806 Information Systems
dc.subject.anzsrc0807 Library and Information Studies
dc.subject.anzsrc2001 Communication and Media Studies
dc.titleAll the world wide web's a stage: The performance of identity in online social networks
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
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