Just Be Yourself (5-30-21)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman
Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139670
Interaction Ritual Chains, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572
Dr. Helen Wolfendon writes in 2012: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139758

According to Valentine, you effectively “perform as yourself” which is not the same as “being yourself”. “Performing yourself” further complicates the notions of authenticity and naturalness inherent in the “be yourself” injunction. Valentine points out that it takes time to learn how to do it; to become familiar with this strange social context and to work out an appropriate self for it. He says “With all of these sort of things, what… increases is your base level. The more you do it the higher your base level gets.” He also recognises that the presentational self must at some level, be other-directed, because it is only through reciprocity that the presenters needs are met.

JV: "I’ve got the biggest ego in the world, you know, but I also know that that ego’s not going to get served unless I’m there for the audience and unless I understand what the audience is wanting. And unless…it’s all about them. If I make it all about them I get my jollies."

* Talk radio presenters in the ABC are often on-air for shifts of two hours, some as long as six. Over this daily duration, five days a week, forty weeks a year, it is difficult to sustain a self that is highly alien to the selves used in other social contexts.

* from a presenter perspective, it is critical that the presentation does not sound like performance – and in some cases cannot feel like a performance either.

So what is it? It is clear that for these presenters, there is an active projection of the self for the audience: a “best” self, a self at the top of their form. As in all such presentations of the self, the projection is a function of the relationship, and what the presenter would like the relationship to be, and what it will be allowed to be by their audience. The relationship is not of a friend or confidante or family member or new person-you-met-at-a-party, though no doubt presenters cannibalise any or all of these for the purpose at hand. The relationship is of broadcaster to audience. The audience is known through the presenters’ own history in
the community of listeners, through conversations with talkback callers, outside broadcasts, and the sheer imaginative cast of emotionally intelligent minds. This audience is understood and related to in the same instant as individual and community, and in the constantly shifting play of gender, class, culture, geography, in-group and out-group nuances within a conversation which is sometimes actually two-way, but is more often a complex and reflexive interactive process in which the audience can only be imagined.

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