A review by alexander0
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, by Erving Goffman
4.0
This book presents a lot of interesting propositions by which an identity in everyday communication can be interpreted as identity construction. Certainly much of this is based in the time it was written. For example, the notions of marriage, the notions of work-life, and the bounds of "social" themselves have changed since this time. Somehow, still, the message is clear enough to resonate more than half a century later.
There are bits here that are really timely for those who are interested in social media communication at the present moment. This pairs very well with folkloric accounts of social media communication. This is not to say the metaphor is perfect for online and offline lives, but the metaphor holds enough to inspire more questions rather than raise serious doubts. This account is very believable and valuable to a social media scholar or people interested in folkloric social lives at the least.
There are bits here that are really timely for those who are interested in social media communication at the present moment. This pairs very well with folkloric accounts of social media communication. This is not to say the metaphor is perfect for online and offline lives, but the metaphor holds enough to inspire more questions rather than raise serious doubts. This account is very believable and valuable to a social media scholar or people interested in folkloric social lives at the least.