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- 2. Personal Writing Who? Target audience: Family, Friends, Professors, Yourself What? Forms of writing: E- mail, Texting, Letter, Diary Why? Purpose of writing: Casual chatting, Asking for help, Recording your day, etc...
- 4. Questions I had... Am I being my true self when I write? Are we really who we are when we are writing? Or am I just trying to project myself in a certain way to the audience I am writing to?
- 5. Title: Texting really is ruining personal relationships. Author: Maggie Mulqueen Publisher: NBC News Published on: 7 Dec 2019 Source #1 (Online Article)
- 6. Source #1 (Online Article) “Our increasing preference for texting over email and phone calls creates a higher quantity of interactions, but it decreases their quality, harming our relationships” “Texting breeds not just grammar and spelling illiteracy but, more importantly, emotional illiteracy as well” ● Current phenomenon: Texting>physical interactions ○ Why? ○ Losing the elements of body language, facial expressions, voice and tone ● Texting breeds emotional illiteracy ○ Overthinking a text
- 7. Title: ‘The presentation of self in the online world’: Goffman and the study of online identities Author: Liam Bullingham, Dr Ana Cristina Vasconcelos Published on: 4 Jan 2013 Source #2 (Research Article) Published in 1956 by Erving Goffman
- 8. Source #2 (Research Article) “Certain qualities could be suppressed while ‘better’ qualities were emphasized, thus offering opportunities for editing the self” “thin boundary between persona adoption and more emphasized editing of certain aspects of self.” ● Editing our writings ○ Grammarly: Setting the tone, purpose ○ Edit and delete functions on messaging platforms ● Different personas when we write ○ Catering to who we are writing to ○ Work/School vs Home? Friend A vs Friend B? ○ The real me?
- 9. Thoughts... ● Writing: mode of communication or a reflection of ourselves? ● Texting a close friend vs Writing to a prof ○ Catering to the target audience ● Portray that ‘different’ image of ourselves while writing ○ Tendency to emphasise more of certain qualities ○ Really a façade or is it still us? ● Ultimately: our choice ○ Choice of communication ○ Choice of words ○ Choice of expression ○ Choice of portrayal of self image
- 10. Back to the questions... Am I being my true self when I write? Are we really who we are when we are writing? Or am I just trying to project myself in a certain way to the audience I am writing to? What choices would you and I make?
- 11. Thank You! Do you have any questions?
Editor's Notes
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a 1956 sociological book by Erving Goffman(Canadian sociologist) , in which the author uses the imagery of theatre in order to portray the importance of human social interaction