Taking Goffman on a Tour of Facebook: College Students and the Presentation of Self in a Mediated Digital Environment

This study explores how college students present themselves on Facebook, a social networking website, and the impressions they want their fellow students to form of them when looking at their profiles. Goffman's dramaturgical and impression management framework served as a theoretical lens thro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birnbaum, Matthew Gardner
Other Authors: Lee, Jenny
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194670