Giving Good ‘Face’: Playful Performances of Self in Facebook

Jaakko Stenros; Janne Paavilainen; Jani Kinnunen

doi:10.1145/2181037.2181062

Giving Good ‘Face’: Playful Performances of Self in Facebook

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Abstract

Facebook use is a ubiquitous part of contemporary life. Based on user interviews this paper probes the performative actions presenting self on Facebook. Instead of a medium or a place Facebook usage is approached as a collection of social situation. The findings support earlier small scale studies of Facebook use and find that Facebook is mostly a playful context where (semi)public utterances are consumed privately, 'friends' are managed as a an audience and a public 'face' is performed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference : Envisioning Future Media Environments
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	153-160
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0816-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181062
Publication status	Published - 2011
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011 - Tampere, Finland Duration: 28 Sept 2011 → 30 Sept 2011

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Conference	15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Tampere
Period	28/09/11 → 30/09/11

Keywords

audience
facebook
performance
play
social networks

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Stenros, J , Paavilainen, J & Kinnunen, J 2011, Giving Good ‘Face’: Playful Performances of Self in Facebook. in Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference : Envisioning Future Media Environments. ACM, New York, pp. 153-160, 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011, Tampere, Finland, 28/09/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181062

Giving Good ‘Face’: Playful Performances of Self in Facebook. / Stenros, Jaakko ; Paavilainen, Janne ; Kinnunen, Jani.
Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference : Envisioning Future Media Environments. New York: ACM, 2011. p. 153-160.

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