- Visit the Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages of four or five of your friends. If you don’t have any of these accounts, you can look at public profiles.
- How do they present themselves on their social media sites?
- What aspects of themselves do they highlight?
- What aspects do they conceal?
- Are they involved in what Goffman describes as impression management?
- Are we necessarily engaged in the process of impression management when we present ourselves to others?
- Watch the film Generation Like (Links to an external site.).
- Summarize the key points of the film.
- How has the construction of the self changed with the increased importance of social media?
- How do the examples in the film connect to the commodification of culture?
- What are the outcomes of this form of interaction and self evaluation?
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