Goffman Argumentative Analysis

This analysis is based on interviews made with nine women from my own network.
Goffman defined performances as activities in front of an audience that accentuate specific matters and hide others. The interviewees, although some of them liked to believe that they were nonchalant about what they post “I kind of just go loud”, seemed to be very aware of what they share and what not “I’m very careful of the presence I have on social media and that doesn’t mean that I don’t share personal information”. It seemed they followed kind of a loose sharing concept. They mentioned mutual criteria: that they would most probably post things that in their opinion were funny, humorous, interesting, thoughtful or beautiful, but also valuable for the network. …show more content…
Deleting seemed to be quite a controversial thing for the interviewees. All of them had an opinion on deleting. They might go back and delete once in a while, if they changed their mind about a post, felt ashamed by daylight, didn’t get the expected response or thought it was simply too much sharing in one day. An interesting reason to delete was provided by one of the interviewees, who felt her posts might be occasionally misunderstood or not understood at all, and that people found her updates weird: “If there weren’t automatically a couple of likes, then I would know that it actually was weird’’. Some of the women had a certain group of people in mind when posting, such as friends who are into music, other artists as well as potential or existing clients. This deleting culture and the thoughts surrounding it seemed very interesting. One could interpret that the wish or even the urge to share could occasionally be stronger than one’s concept or idea of value or quality. But, being reflective and concerned about their own image, the women would decide …show more content…
The women seemed to have even clearer ideas of how and what they posted on Instagram. Active sharing on Instagram seemed very important for all of the women “It's important I mean it's kind of like a way to feel like you're seen and that you're alive”. Which could be interpreted as loyalty towards their followers.
Someone underlined the change of how much time she invested in a post, “Now […]
I edit them with VCL camera software and then I post them two hours later than I took them”. As mentioned above, this could be translated as the narcissist drive to share, not necessarily in an optical way, that people would think they were more attractive, but in terms of love of exposure as a whole and a need for a reaction to that. One of the women actually applied a storytelling or what she called ‘event series’ strategy, where she posted various pictures in a row, to narrate a day, afternoon or evening that she spent with friends. She had a clear concept of how that had to look in terms of filters or frames, which should be the same for the whole series. She

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