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Negotiating multiple identities on the social web: Goffman, fragmentation and the multiverse

by corinnew November 16, 2011

(This is a keynote presentation I delivered at this year’s webCom Montréal) Let me start off with a confession: I have multiple personas. No, not multiple personalities! I have multiple personas. And I’m pretty sure you do too! Erwin Goffman, the famous Canadian sociologist once observed that when we interact with others, we enter a stage […]

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