Directions
Please respond to all of the questions in paragraph form with the question numbers labeled. You should incorporate social psychology concepts into your answers and cite the readings as needed. The paper should be 2-4 pages.
- Visit the Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages of four or five of your friends.
- -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 https://youtu.be/JqamKb7gTWY
- -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?
