Performatic ruptures in social network sites: a gaze at fissures in the process of self-presentation based on and beyond Goffman

• Autor(a) principal: Polivanov, Beatriz Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Silva Carrera, Fernanda Ariane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/79810
• topic: Performatic ruptures. Social network sites. Goffman.

A handful of studies has been dedicated to investigate the processes of self-presentation in social network sites. A large number of them is based on Goffman's dramaturgical perspective, focusing on how social actors build their "front" in these environments in order, in most of the cases, to keep the "expressive coherence" between their on and offline selves. However, we suggest in this paper we should look at the moments of performatic ruptures, that is, when the actors' intentions are not fulfilled, causing unexpected effects. We argue - combined with an exploratory analysis of two illustrative cases - that, on one side, little attention has been paid to such ruptures and, on the other side, that to Goffman's perspective more contemporary theoretical background should be added in order to allow us to: a) understand the specificities of digital environments, and b) deal with several actants, humans and nonhumans, which are involved in these dynamics as fundamental mediators.