As we discussed in class… people are putting their backstage behavior online for the world to view… My favorite paragraph: Another member of the Facebook group is more cautious. Laura, a 22-year-old business major, took down a drunken video of herself after being contacted by CNN for an interview, saying the request made her…
BASIC THESIS: Goffman’s theory of front stage and backstage is being blurred by technology, more specifically YouTube. Behaviors that Goffman saw as backstage are being moved to the front stage because of the availability of this new technology. People are posting videos of themselves on YouTube, behavior Goffman would consider backstage, to a very large…
Read more My argument for final paper (YouTube and Goffman).
http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/12/03/you-will-control-25-of-entertainment-by-2012/ <snip> Nokia’s latest study, ‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode’, predicts that within five years a quarter of all entertainment will be created, edited and shared within peer groups rather than coming out of traditional media groups. Trend-setting consumers from 17 countries were asked about their digital behaviors and lifestyles. Nokia also used information…
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/movies.html i pity the fool who doesn’t play WOW. =t
Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday Life was published in 1959 with the intent of establishing a description of meaning in social interaction. Goffman said that people present an “idealized” version of themselves in public (front stage). People present more consistent versions of themselves to coincide with norms and societal laws. When not in public…
Read more My Paper: Goffman’s Presentation of Self and YouTube
This article posted today to CNN speaks to the impact of technology on culture in a big way. When I was a teenager, many moons ago, you were considered rude or “chicken” to break up with a girlfriend over the telephone. You had to “face the music” as they say. But now things are much,…
This will not be a large post, I am still working out the details…. But I have been thinking about the development of a language of HCI. I realize that it is important to have a controlled vocabulary that we can use to communicate HCI concepts and theories across disciplines. It is also important to…
I was lucky enough to go to ASIST this past week and went to many interesting discussions. One that stuck out and has ties to our recent lecture involved ‘genre’ in search. The panelists discussed the use of genre in search and whether or not it was valuable. There were many comments and much disagreement.…
You may have already seen this, but the summary of the interview is nice… note the emphasis on sketching. This of course reiterates what we read by Buxton earlier. (the full audio interview is also available via link on page) http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/31/a-conversation-with-bill-buxton-about-design-thinking/
Interaction Culture 