Social media is pervasive to our everyday life. According to the documentary Generation Like, teens today tell the world what they think is cool using the social currency of their generation: likes, follows, friends, and retweets. Write an essay explaining and exemplifying how social media shape “the self” of teenagers. Applying Goffman terms such as impression management, mask, and the stage, explain how social media changes their social interaction with significant and generalized others. You should also consider bringing Walter Ong’s notion of secondary orality to your analysis. This is the full topic of this paper. can you use these three sources?
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