CMST 2TM6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erving Goffman, F.E.A.R., Escapism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2TM6
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Meanings are made from dynamic relationships; lives and media interact together (producers, texts, technologies, interpretative audiences) Used the imagery of the theatre in order to portray the importance of human social interaction. Front: how we act in the social world we put up a front, in order to project a certain image of ourselves in this part of our social identity. Back: withdraw from social performance and drop their front, it is concealed from view, hidden from social performance. Different interactions between mass media and media figures. Personal: personalities or performers that build intimate para-social relationships with the audience. Physical space mitigated by shared social nets of info and tech. Media brings different social situations into shared space. Person/group emerges as threat to societal values, perpetuated. Builds on both the feminist challenges to the idea that gender is part of the essential self.