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Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior Erving Goffman
Publisher: Pantheon

Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a stance familiar to republics worldwide. Joe Henrich, Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan are shaking up psychology and economics with their view of how culture shapes human thought and behavior. Running away has the effect of confirming emotional dominance; it is easier to shoot a person in the back than in the front; and turning away or attempting to hide one's face has the effect of removing one's greatest deterrent-- eye-contact with the opponent. The medium fundamentally dislocates action and communication from face-to-face co-presence, so it loses both its “situatedness” and its context in place and time. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. According to Goffman, the “face is an image of self delineated in terms of approved social attributes”. I see user interactions as occurring between users, mediated by or rather the “application,” into account when interacting with others. So, I believed that I knew enough to stand at the microphone in a plenum session and get in the face of a leading anthropologist and I had an obvious opinion, an attitude and a smart-ass posture about this small effete issue in the larger frame of serious global problems, but, somehow, Now, the reflections and memories all have a framework that I did not have when I stood there in 1967; and the importance of that framework is the background topic of this essay. I view social interaction design as a field that seeks user-centric descriptions of experiences and behaviors on social media, with an eye on emergent social practices. Many people who own guns are gun-cultists, for whom guns are symbolic objects, connected with their identity and lifestyle (analyzed in Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains). Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behavior (1967) carries on developing the concept of “face”. 'Task Characteristics and the Experience of Optimal Flow in Human-Computer Interaction', Journal of Psychology, 128 (4): 381-91. This shift in political posture was accompanied by considerable trepidation as well as excitement. The most interesting thing about cultures may not be in the observable things they do—the rituals, eating preferences, codes of behavior, and the like—but in the way they mold our most fundamental conscious and unconscious thinking and perception.