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Bragging/flaunting something positive.
(ex. Wearing a Packers jersey after the Super Bowl) |
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| What is the traditional view of Identity? |
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| We have one, true, and stable identity. We can't change our personality. |
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| What is the contemprary view of Identity? |
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| Our personality is flexible. We have multiple identities; we form different identities as we go on throughout life. |
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| You are who you perceive yourself to be (superhot, ugly, smart, etc.), but what effects your opinion? |
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| Your personal and social context. |
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| The looking glass self influences our opinion about who we are. What is the looking glass self? |
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| An individual's sense of self is derived from the perceptions of others. |
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| How is our identity constructed? |
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| If we are always picked first to be on a sports team, we are athletic. If teahers give us good grades, we are smart. |
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| What is the problem with CMC and the traditional identity view? |
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| Because we are over exposed and stimulated by online material, we may never be able to develop a cohesive identity. |
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| What is the implication for CMC and the contemporary view? |
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| Online, we can be who we want to be. |
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| Online people create themselves, like on MySpace and through blogs. How do the do that on this examples? |
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| On MySpace they can manipulate their page to display whatever it is they want to display. And through blogs they post whatever they want, typically what they love. |
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| How might CMC be good for groups or individuals? |
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| It could benefit groups that are normally socially stigmatized (ex. homosexuals). They can hide that part of their identity. |
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| How might CMC be bad groups or individuals? |
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| It could be more hurtful to them because it's easier to say hurtful things online rather than FtF |
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| Humans are social creatures, therefore __________ is the basis for our social interactions. |
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| Why are we driven to maximize communication satisfaction and interaction? |
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| Communication is the basis for our social interections. |
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| A part of self management is indentity disembodiment. What is indentity disembodiment? |
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| Freed from all constraints, freed from everything that holds you back. |
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| A part of self management is identity play. What is identity play? |
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| Presenting yourself as a false self. Ex- an old man pretending to be a young men. |
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| True or False: Online self presentation is a strategic endeavor. |
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| CMC fundamentally is a different way to communicaite. Give a few examples. |
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BTW
IMHO (in my humble opinion)
BRB
LOL
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| What are our CMC identities composed of? |
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-Avatars
-identity labels
-LOL (etc.)
-OMG, CMC is t0t as3som3 n00bi3 |
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| What did Erving Goffman (1959) claim in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life? |
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| We have creativity and freedon in forming identity, basically, we decide who sees what. And he used theatre as a metaphor. |
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| Erving Goffman used theatre as a metaphor to describe identity as a metaphor, how? |
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| Front Region/Stage is what ever one sees (profile page) and the Back Region is our hidden or private self |
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| What is identity negotiation? |
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| People are motivated to have others see them as they see themselves (or how they want to be seen at least) |
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| What is selective interaction? |
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| People thrive in environments that suppost the individual's view of him/her self. (If we want to be seen a certain way, we need to put ourselves in those contexts) |
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| What are the four factors of communication? |
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-Sender
-Receiver
-Channel
-Feedback Loop |
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| What is the difference between physical presence and telepresence? |
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| Physical presense is reality, who you really are. Telepresense is your online version of yourself, whoever you decide to be. |
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