Entries Tagged as ‘performance studies and social movement theory’

July 30, 2006

Research Plan

this is a sort of beginning for my research/dissertation plan…

considering questions of place, community, performance, education, consumption as i’m
-defining literacy and discussing activism (huge i know)
-looking at movement like…

environmental literacy>>>>>>>environmental activism
environmental education to environmental policy to env. radicalism
media literacy>>>>>>>>>>media activism
know the media to change the media to be the media

-analyzing public & political discourse about [...]

July 2, 2006

Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

a summary from somewhere that i forgot to properly annotate: “Goffman explores the details of individual identity, group relations, the impact of environment, and the movement and interactive meaning of information. His perspective, though limited in scope, provides new insight into the nature of social interaction and the psychology of the individual.”
the purpose:
“I assume that [...]