Today: How to make a lit review/research proposal

One sentence: what is the central point/idea of your ethnography?
Questions to ask your self then:
Is your point clear and logical?
Is it one of the following four things? Deep/surprising/counter-intuitive/unique?

Lit we gathered
Decline from being into having into merely appearing—from Shane’s annotated bib
Moment where you finally found yourself?
Goffman—dramaturgical perspective.
There’s a certain level of your level of awareness of the mask that you wear at any given time.
We manage our impressions based on who sees us.
“de-identify”

Comparison with New Guinea
We focus on categories (I, you, society, etc)
They focus on relationships (they don’t have a word for society)
They’re still in a state of “being”—tech has pushed us into the state of “appearing”
They don’t have mirrors—imagine a world in which you haven’t seen yourself. Doesn’t it seem different?

Things to Note:
1. We are constantly bombarded with imagery of how we’re supposed to look.
2. This imagery creates skewed and impossible standards to meet.
3. The media not only comes to us—but we are able to BE a part of the media (vlog on YouTube)
4. Taping yourself is hard b/c you are forced to see that “other” of you.

Looking-Glass Self: You only know who you are when you internalize a generalized other—you can’t know self without the “other.”