Beneito-Montagut, Roser  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5967-4307
2015.
Encounters on the social web: everyday life and emotions online.
Sociological Perspectives
58
(4)
, pp. 537-553.
10.1177/0731121415569284
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Abstract
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this study examines focused encounters on the social web. It starts from the premise that online interaction can be analyzed through the conceptual lens of a Goffmanian ‘encounter’ but argues that this concept needs to be extended in order to take into account the online facets of people’s social interactions in everyday life. The paper explores how frequent participants in social web applications interact with others and manage emotions during these encounters. It achieves this by analyzing the different elements of online encounters: a single visual and cognitive focus of attention, a mutual and preferential openness to verbal communication, a heightened mutual relevance of acts, and an eye-to-eye ecological huddle. The paper thus reconceptualizes copresence in online settings. It concludes that the Goffmanian concept of ‘encounter’ needs to be extended in the context of the social web to capture the specific set of strategies and rules that emerge in online encounters.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Additional Information: | Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0731-1214/ (accessed 24/02/15) |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| ISSN: | 0731-1214 |
| Funders: | Spanish Education Ministry - José Castillejo Program |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 23 December 2014 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 20:00 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/69270 |
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