Goffman (1956, 1973) has described how people negotiate and validate identities in faceto-
face encounters and how people establish'frames' within which to evaluate the meaning of
encounters. These ideas have been influential in how sociologists and psychologists see …

… 9. Hugh Miller, "The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet," paper
presented at Embodied Knowledge and Virtual Space Conference, Goldsmiths' College, University
of London, 1995; and Charles Cheung, "A Home on the Web:Presentations of Self on …

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world': Goffman and the study of online identities. Liam Bullingham and Ana C. Vasconcelos.
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… Although they sometimes presented current events in the form of a narrative, they did not situate …
and “effectively” fostered the understanding that a given state of affairs obtains (Goffman 1959,
p … Presen- tation of identity on a home page, much like presentation of identity in face-to …

… and Massey (1978) suggest that 1) high disparity among organizations drives the need to
recognize that “presentations will not … Therefore, it appears that similar traits to organizational
legitimacy are inferred from Goffman's pillar concepts of the self-presentation theory …

… Miller and Arnold (2001) applied Goffman's theory to explain how woman academics construct
their own … there were limits to how imaginative individuals could be in their presentations of self …
eg, Walther, 1995), these online daters were very strategic in their presentation of self …

… As with video dating (Woll & Cozby, 1987), Internet personals allow for more … These opportunities
for selective self-presentation (Walther, 1996; Walther & Burgoon, 1992) are reminiscent of the
offline impression management behaviors described by Goffman (1959) …

… Goffman calls this ªfaceº: not ªselfº but self-presentation … so that shared meanings are possible
(Brown & Levinson, 1979; Douglas, 1970; Garfinkel, 1967; Goffman, 1959, 1967 … occur on Internet
if people choose to abandon their everyday attributes and the presentations of self …

… It may still be a presentation of self, and undoubt- edly it continues to signify an individual …
Communication is usually presented in reverse chronological order … Thus, it is unsurprising
that Goffman has already been applied to these spaces (Schroeder, 2002) …

… The content presented within the blog post is what the audience reads, and, as … The
self-presentation concept, also referred to as impression man- agement, implies that every
individual … Goffman explained it as the ways individuals man- age impressions of themselves on …