Way back in ancient times (August, to be precise), you collectively named 11 social theorists that you had heard of and/or knew on the first day of class. Needless to say, you’ve come a long way!
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What Projects Have People Been Viewing?
If you would like to include these analytics along with your presentations tomorrow, please find:
Top Posts for Monday, November 28th (in terms of views)
Goffman’S Presentation of Self Presentations
From your collection presentations on Goffman’s Presentation of Self book, please find below the materials your groups created for this text.
Critical Theories of Racism: Tim Wise to Speak at Oxy
Theorizing Race and Racism on the Web
From sociologist Jessie Daniels (CUNY Hunter), a presentation that focuses on race and racism in the digital sphere. In it, she traces a history of the web wherein individuals were at once hopeful about the web’s potential to become a deracialized space–one that could be truly color-blind. It would not take long for this optimism to be squashed. It was quickly realized that the web would serve as yet another platform for the production and reproduction of racial domination, as she provides several examples below.


