Exploring social media use in small firms: a cultural toolkit perspective by Michelle Richey

“…The study found that the respondents interpretation of social media as a low risk and highly uncertain endeavour prompted their experimentation with various combinations of cultural tools as attempts were made to overcome the common challenges of social media use (i.e. finding time for social media, knowing what to post on social media). …”
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Exploring the retirement transitions of professional elite male rugby players by Sabrina Heimler

“…This seemed to be further strengthened by the societal stigma of expecting the retired players not to show distress as this would not align with their “strong champion” identities (Cosh et al., 2015, p.43). This research provides new insights into why elite male rugby union players may seemingly voluntarily continue with a career that can commodify them and can be harmful for their (long-term) health (Arvinen-Barrow et al., 2017; Murray et al., 2020). …”
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Writing scripts and learning lines: an exploration of improvisation within primary PE provision and the emergence of watchfulness by Stanley Windsor

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The perils and promises of self-disclosure on social media by Michelle Richey, Aparna Gonibeed, M.N. Ravishankar

“…Drawing on the dramaturgical vocabulary of Goffman (1959) we shed light on how individuals cope with increased levels of self-disclosure on social media. …”
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Sport as a development tool for transformational social change: Practitioners' perceptions by Leoni McKelvey

“…The research is underpinned by the unique combination of two social scientific approaches: the realist evaluation framework of Context-Mechanism-Outcome (CMO configurations), and Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical model of social interaction, which is introduced to the academic field of Sport for Development. …”
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Exploring situationally inappropriate social media posts: an impression management perspective by Michelle Richey, M.N. Ravishankar, Christine Coupland

“…Originality/value - We identify four triggers linked to inappropriate social media posts, namely (a) speed and spontaneity, (b) informality, (c) blurred boundaries and (d) the missing audience. …”
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Music in the time of COVID-19 by Louise Tompkins-Tinari

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Supporting adults with intellectual disabilities by protecting their footing in a challenging conversational task by Charles Antaki

“…Staff's support strategies ranged along a gradient, from those that most respected the service-user's footing as chair (by displays of low entitlement in suggestions, provision of candidate questions, speaking on behalf of the chair, and so on) to those that least did so (ultimately taking full control of the meeting).Without staff intervention, service-users with intellectual impairments struggle to meet the demands of chairing meetings. …”
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Communicating via photographs: A gendered analysis of Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on Instagram by Andrea Geurin, Lauren M Burch

“…The purpose of this study was to examine Olympic athletes’ self-presentation on Instagram, a social media outlet on which users post photographs as their primary communication mechanism, in order to develop an understanding of the ways in which athletes use this medium as a communication and marketing tool to build their personal brand. …”
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It's like mmm: Enactments with it's like by Barbara A. Fox, Jessica Robles

“…As such they tend to occur within stories, typically during the closing of a story. The enactments are often ‘response cries’ (Goffman, 1978) such as oh, mm, wow, and man. …”
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Does mathematics look certain in the front, but fallible in the back? by Christian Greiffenhagen, Wes Sharrock

“…In this paper we re-examine the implications of the differences between 'doing' and 'writing' science and mathematics, questioning whether the way that science and mathematics are presented in textbooks or research articles creates a misleading picture of these differences. …”
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The significance of the body as a project: for an understanding of physical activity among women with a spinal cord injury by Nichola Roberts

“…The aim of this study is to explore the significance of the body as a project for an understanding of physical activity among women with a spinal cord injury (SCI). …”
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Who can represent the nation? Elite athletes, global mega events and the contested boundaries of national belonging by Joost Jansen, Michael Skey

“…Developing an analytical framework that uses insights from Elias, Goffman and Hage, we focus on three key issues. First, how a taken-for-granted ‘logic of nationalism’ underlies discussions about which athletes should (not) represent Britain. …”
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When delayed responses are productive: Being persuaded following resistance in conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe, Bogdana Huma, Rein Sikveland, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman

“…Conversation analysts have long since demonstrated that, in responding to an initiating action (e.g., question), recipients have at least two ways to respond; that response options (e.g., answer, non-answer) are not equivalent, and that ‘preferred’ responses are typically delivered more rapidly than ‘dispreferred’ responses. …”
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Exploring the self-presentations of Indian IT professionals on social media by Aparna Gonibeed

“…Presumably, diverse self-presentations across physical-virtual settings and personal-professional life may create conflicts or tensions. Drawing on 31 semi-structured interviews, this thesis explores the self-presentations of Indian IT professionals on social media. …”
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Rugby union men: body concerns by Natalie Darko

“…The research discussed in this thesis examines how a group of rugby union men (25) aged 18-25, of varied racial identity, ethnic and social backgrounds, participating in an elite university rugby union 1st XV team, experience concerns about the appearance and performance of their bodies and the ways in which such concerns develop. …”
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LGBT people and suicidality in youth: A qualitative study of perceptions of risk and protective circumstances by Ian Rivers, Cesar Gonzalez, Nuno Nodin, Elizabeth Peel, Allan Tyler

“…Using a Goffman-informed thematic analysis, results identified three key themes that were linked to attempts to end life in youth. …”
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The social organisation of social work by Michael Roffe

“…Throughout the thesis, the aim is to validate my approach through a dialogue with other research studies and also through considering the participants' own orientations to the issues under discussion.…”
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Flowers of Scotland?: a sociological analysis of national identities, Rugby Union and Association Football in Scotland by John Kelly

“…Through the use of semi-structured interviews and observation, empirical data was collected and analysed utilising a cultural studies theoretical framework. The theoretical explanations have been informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu's explanatory formula of practice and, at a secondary level, by Erving Goffman's dramaturgical model, demonstrating the compatibility of synthesising these two social theorists' concepts in formulating original research explanations. …”
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Illness, injury and sporting identity: a case study of women's rowing by Elizabeth C.J. Pike

“…A typology is presented identifying the key risk factors in rowing. …”
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The coach-parent-athlete triangle: an investigation in age group swimming by Diana Bass

“…The resulting data also confirmed that members of the 'sporting triangle' do not come to a swimming situation value free but bring with them a variety of expectations, needs and wants. …”
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The 'like' generation: an exploration of social networking's influence on adolescents' productions of gender, identity, (virtual) capital and technological practices by John J. Whittle

“…The study draws upon data collected via 9 semi-structured interviews, 9 focus groups and 84 surveys with boys and girls aged 11-16 from three schools in England. …”
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Performing knowledge work: an ethnographic exploration of a people analytics team by Nina Jorden

“…Contrary to the existing literature, I consider people analytics to be more of a threat to the profession than an improvement, at least in its current form. …”
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