Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere: “Tactics” and Facebook

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Author(s): Santosh Khadka (Syracuse University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 11
Source title: Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Marohang Limbu (Michigan State University, USA)and Binod Gurung (New Mexico State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4757-2.ch011

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management / Knowledge Society / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Facebook, like any other social networking site, troubles the traditional categories of private and public spheres. As it complicates (and transcends) the distinction, it can be called a different space, or a liminal space, which falls somewhere in-between private and public spheres. The author argues that this recognition of Facebook as a liminal sphere has important implications to the (re) definition of public and private spheres and to the ways rhetoric should work or be used in the Web 2.0 sites like Facebook. The author also proposes that Michael de Certeau’s notions of “strategy” and “tactics” can be powerful rhetorical tools to deal with Facebook’s liminality and to enhance the rhetorical performance of self in Facebook and other similar new media forums.

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