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From Hyperlinks to Hyperties: Extending Goffman to Mobile Social Software

February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

In my paper From Hyperlinks to Hyperties in  The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors; which came from the symposium of the same name at Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia).  I propose one of the ways mobile devices and social software will change the nature of [...]

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Electrification of the Interaction Order, or, eGoffman

February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the “interaction order”, the realm of interactions between people.  Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like how people pass by each other in hallways, manage eye contact, or show that they [...]

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