Transcript:-My name is Meg and for week tens BCM112 topic, Constructing a Social Identity, I have decided to create a SoundCloud podcast titled “We are all performers on a world stage”
Human beings rely on networking in order to stay connected. Social networks provide a place for individuals to form relationships with others. This could be through similar interests, cultures, conflict, trade and much more. Social networks are forged whenever an interaction process takes place.  During the time of the interaction process, Goffman suggests “every individual puts on an act that is desired by the people that the individual is around at the present time (Goffman 1971, p 28). The introduction of the Internet means that networking is no longer just a physical interaction; it creates a place where people can create a digital profile, one that is available to the outside world at anytime.  According to the authors of ‘Social Network Analysis: Measuring, Mapping and Modelling Collections of Connections’ (2011) “the recent proliferation of Internet social media applications and mobile devices has made social connections more visible than ever before”. For example Twitter allows the user to form multiple connections with others. Through twitter you are a participant in an intercommunicative platform that links people to certain issues, ideas, conversations and beliefs through tools such as the tweet and Hash tag. Therefore people enter the interconnected world of twitter and form an online persona based off the interactions with everyone else. This means our virtual world is not just formed by one link rather it is a combination of multiple sources that help produce the best digital identity. 

References:-
Goffman, E 1971, 'Performances', The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Harmondsworth, Penguin, pp 28-82 

Hansen, Derek. Shneiderman, Ben. Smith, Marc. 2011. ‘Social Network Analysis: Measuring, Mapping and Modeling Collections of Connections’. Analyzing Social Media Networks.  Morgan Kaufman: Burlington. pp.31-50.


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