This study explores how college students present themselves on Facebook, a social networking website, and the impressions they want their fellow students to form of them when looking at their profiles. Goffman's dramaturgical and impression management framework served as a theoretical lens through which Facebook profiles were explored. Employing an ethnographic research design, data for this study were collected during eight-months of participant observation, 30 photo-elicitation interviews, and a photographic content analysis.Facebook has been rapidly adopted by undergraduate students who use it to maintain existing relationships and also as a medium in which to present themselves, especially through photographs. This study provides college administrators and student affairs professional some information about how undergraduates use Facebook and how Facebook can assist them in better understanding their institution's own student culture.Because photographs are instrumental to Facebook use, this study focused on the many images students place on their profiles. The use of photographs in social research is limited and it is hoped that this study will lay the ground work for further use of visual methods. This study found that college students believe that other college students are the primary audience for their profiles. Also, college students use six general "fronts" that lead audience members to see them as: (1) partier, (2) social, (3) adventurous/risk-taker, (4) humorous/funny/silly, (5) part of larger community, and (6) unique. Taken together, these fronts represent an "idealized" undergraduate. Students use props, settings, and gesture to provide their audience members visual cues to help them form the desired impressions. Much of the material that students place on Facebook is meant to be humorous or only understood by a small group of friends. Also, students only show a "narrow strip of activity" in their profiles.

Denna studie syftar till att öka förståelsen för hur poliser inom Stockholms polismyndighet förhåller sig till sin yrkesroll och för hur relationen mellan yrkesroll och privatroll upprätthålls med fokus på det emotionella arbete som ingår i polisrollen. Studien bygger på fem kvalitativa samtalsintervjuer med poliser som arbetar inom två av Stockholms läns åtta polisdistrikt, och som har en tjänstgöringsålder på mellan två till fyra år. Den insamlade empirin har analyserats med hjälp av Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv samt tidigare forskning om emotioner relaterade till det polisiära yrket. Uppsatsen visar att respondenterna strävar efter att särskilja sin yrkesroll från rollen som privatperson i mötet med allmänheten, vilket av respondenterna anses vara en förutsättning för att kunna prestera i sin yrkesroll. Om denna åtskillnad ej görs kan den enskilda polisen få svårigheter att spela rollen som polis vilken kan leda till att allmänheten ej vet om individen agerar i egenskap av polis eller privatperson vilket kan leda till svårigheter för den enskilda polisen i sitt yrkesagerande. Uppsatsen visar vidare hur respondenterna under arbetstid kan skifta mellan rollen som polis och privatperson då allmänheten ej är närvarande och de befinner sig på en plats förbehållen för poliser. Intervjuerna vittnar om att skiftet mellan rollen som polis och privatperson kan ske mycket hastigt och ofta per automatik varför respondenterna menar att de ej behöver reflektera över detta skifte.

Facebook offers users a mode in which to (re)construct their identity. Recent studies examining identity and Facebook explore how impression management is a major factor when participating in the site. However, a research gap exists regarding the perspectives and experiences of older adult users and how they construct their identity on Facebook. This study extends the current knowledge base on identity in online environments. Qualitative face-to-face interviews with 16 individuals (8 male, 8 female) between the ages of 48-67 followed by a detailed thematic analysis indicate that identity is not fixed; but rather, is multiple and ever-changing. Findings reveal the performative nature of identity on Facebook through the identification of seven identities: expressive, hesitant/cautious, censored, vain, controlled, confident, and validated. Results give voice to older adults, an age group largely ignored when exploring the use of social media.

The aim of this study is to examine how people act and respond to the different aspects given/experienced when using social media platforms. The investigation is a qualitive study based on eight interviews with media-students aged between 23 to 25 at the Linneaus university, Sweden. The theoretical frame of the study is founded on the theory of Goffmans studies regarding the presentation of self. The investigation shows that the respondents act acordingly to the different roles as described by Goffman, althogh there´s a difference when compared to common face-to-face interaction since the option to choose which impressions to give is bigger when interacting through social media channels.

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Le professionnel, le passant, le parent constituent les trois principales figures des situations de secours et d’urgence, lors de l’appel aux sapeurs-pompiers et au sein des services d’urgences pédiatriques. La recherche s’appuie sur un travail de terrain réalisé sur trois sites (un centre de traitement des appels au 18 et deux services hospitaliers d’urgences pédiatriques) pour montrer comment ils incarnent trois facettes de l’intervention de secours. Elle distingue leurs modes de coordination, d’articulation mais aussi de contiguïté et s’attache à leur activité autour du patient en détaillant la structure triadique des interactions de secours à travers lesquelles, en pratique, se joue la prise en charge. Entre signalement et intervention, cure et care, alerte, soins et suivi, c’est finalement une « situation de secours » élargie, impliquant plusieurs personnes, plusieurs lieux et plusieurs temporalités parfois étanches les uns aux autres qui est donnée à voir. L’enjeu de la recherche est alors de montrer que le secours d’urgence n’est ni dual ni uniquement institutionnel. Il s’actualise collectivement, impliquant des rôles et des places pour différents tiers. Faire toute sa place au personnage social du « tiers secourant », à la figure sociologique du tiers, à la configuration interactionnelle du trio, représente une condition pour penser l’offre de soins comme engagements multiples, au croisement de pratiques professionnelles, familiales et civiles. Sur le plan théorique, la thèse contribue à une « sociologie du tiers » à travers la mise en évidence d’une « tiercéité » constitutive du secours d’urgence. / Emergency department professional, passer-by, parent represent three main characters of emergencies and first aid situations, from the call to the Fire Brigade to the arriving in pediatric emergency services. The research is grounded in three fieldworks (Paris fire Brigade call centre and two big pediatric emergency services). It intends to unfold three types of participation through the activities done by those three characters, especially during interactions at the very beginning of the situation. Their coordination, articulation, and even contiguity reveal their activities toward patients and show a triadic structure of the “first aid interactions” through which patients enter helping and medical processes. From alert to action, cure to care, medical acts to following care, the emergency situation enlarges, implies more people than just a patient and a professional all of them only partly conscious of each other‘s activities, other places than just emergency services, and other tempos than the one of the professionals. We aim at showing that first aid interaction is neither dyadic nor just institution matter. It is built collectively, on roles and places for “third parties”. The recognition of this “helping Third” as sociological character and of triad as an interactional specific pattern is necessary to pragmatically consider first-aid system as a set of plural commitments, crossing familial, civic and expert fields of concern. Theoretically, the research contributes to a “third-party sociology” by enlightening a third party dimension even if not triadic in first-aid intervention delivered by emergency public services.

Uppsatsens syfte är att fördjupa kunskapen om arbetsmöten mellan kollegor där problemlösning är centralt. Genom detaljerade samtalsanalyser beskrivs samtalets organisering som framgår i samtalens samtalsfaser. Studien har en etnometodologisk ansats för att genomföra en samtalsanalys. Datainsamlingen har skett genom att filma fyra arbetsmöten som sedan observerats för att identifiera olika samtalsfaser som därefter transkriberats. Resultatet har analyserats med Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv och Bions gruppteori.   Tidigare forskning visar att studier av arbetsmöten kollegor emellan är eftersatt, därför är kunskapen eftersatt om vad som karakteriserar sådana möten som samtalspraktiker.       Studien visar att man i kollegiala arbetsmöten skapar konsensus genom att ha ett professionellt förhållningssätt vid problemlösning och för att acceptera förklaringar till varför man arbetar som man gör. Man tar inte personlig ställning utan förklarar ställningstagande med regelverk och organisationens policy. Studiens resultat synliggör dolda inslag som kan förekomma i kollegiala samtalskulturer som får konsekvenser för organisering av arbetsmöten och deras utfall.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur unga vuxna skapar sin självpresentation på Instagram. För att uppfylla syftet studerades insamlat intervjumaterial med hjälp av tematisk analys. Resultatet visar att unga vuxna skapar sin självpresentation på Instagram genom noggrant utvalda bilder och bildtexter i syfte att framställa sig själva som positiva, framgångsrika, och attraktiva. Det är även viktigt för målgruppen att vara trovärdig i sin självpresentation. Vidare framkommer att självpresentationen huvudsakligen skapas genom förberedande och upprätthållande åtgärder, samt att unga vuxna är väl medvetna om publikens närvaro och anpassar sin publicering för att inte skapa spänningar i offline-baserade relationer.

Orientador : Profª. Drª. Jane Mendes Ferreira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração. Defesa: Curitiba, 29/02/2016 / Inclui referências : f.127-135 / Resumo: A identidade do empreendedor é normalmente estudada de forma a atribuir a este indivíduo características tidas como desejáveis às suas funções, promovendo, assim, a noção de perfil empreendedor. Abordagens alternativas à identidade deste indivíduo são pouco utilizadas e, entre elas, a metáfora dramatúrgica de Goffman (1959) pode opção, vez que relaciona a ação humana à representação de papeis socialmente construídos, como o de empreendedor. A presente dissertação tem como objetivo compreender como o papel de empreendedor constitui a identidade do indivíduo, ou seja, a concepção do indivíduo sobre ele próprio. Servem a este propósito a metáfora dramatúrgica e a micro-análise, de forma complementar à análise qualitativa proposta, possibilitando maior entendimento do conteúdo latente, agregando as nuances particulares do estudo das interações e auto-representações à análise da comunicação verbal. Os resultados revelam que o entendimento do indivíduo acerca do papel, as expectativas sociais percebidas para o papel de empreendedor e a representação em resposta a estas expectativas resultam na interiorização de valores e condutas deste papel, constituindo a identidade desse indivíduo. Mostram ainda os resultados que o indivíduo assume o papel de empreendedor visando a aprovação de seu empreendimento, o aumento da própria auto-estima e a auto-afirmação de sua identidade desejada frente ao público. Palavras-chave: Identidade pessoal; empreendedorismo; papel de empreendedor; interacionismo simbólico; Erving Goffman; metáfora dramatúrgica. / Abstract: The entrepreneur's identity is usually studied in order to assign to this person characteristics thought to be desirable to his functions, thus promoting the notion of entrepreneurial profile. Alternative approaches to the identity of this individual are little used and, among them, Goffman's dramaturgical metaphor (1959) can be beneficial, as it relates human action to the representation of socially constructed roles, as the entrepreneur one. This dissertation aims at understanding how the entrepreneur's role constitutes the personal identity, that is, the subject's conception about himself. Dramaturgical metaphor and micro-analysis serve this purpose, being complementary to the proposed qualitative analyses, enabling greater understanding of the latent content, adding the particular nuances of the interactions and selfrepresentations study to the analysis of verbal communication. The results reveal that the understanding of the individual about the role, perceived social expectations for the entrepreneur role and representation in response to these expectations result in the internalization of values and behaviors of this role, constituting the identity of this individual. The results show yet that the individual assumes the entrepreneur's role seeking approval for their venture, to increase self-esteem and the selfaffirmation of his desired identity to the public. Keywords: Personal Identity; entrepreneurship; entrepreneur's role; symbolic interaction; Erving Goffman; dramaturgical metaphor.

In various social networks available on the Internet, including LinkedIn, individuals may present themselves in a profile with a personal presentation in aim to find a new job. However presentations do differ depending on from which line of profession individuals present themselves from. Do to previous research LinkedIn users utilize strategies to manipulate information they present, also seen in controlling and handling of how an individual should be perceived. The theoretical framework was found in Erving Goffman's theories about impression management which is used to examine the phenomenon on a deeper level. The method used for this study was qualitative method with text analysis where the material was collected from the LinkedIn website and consisted of four different profession categories with ten profiles per category. The study's results showed how profession categories present themselves on LinkedIn, where was even shown what was common and what distinguished. The conclusion was that profession categories present themselves with expressions which are contingent on the norms, values and expectations as conditioned by the given profession. They are therefore the result of an tradition in their social profession which requires that specific form of expression.