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"Atkinson and Silverman (1997) remind us that the postmodern is an interview society, a society of the spectacle, a society of the personal confession. According to Atkinson and Silverman (pp. 309–15) the interview society is characterized by the following features and beliefs: (1) it has turned the confessional mode of discourse into a form of entertainment; (2) the private has become a public commodity; (3) persons are assumed to have private and public and authentic selves, and the private self is the real self; (4) skilled interviewers and therapists (and sometimes the person) have access to this self; (5) certain experiences, epiphanies, are more authentic than others, they leave deep marks and scars on the person; (6) persons have access to their own experiences; (7) first-person narratives are very valuable. They are the site of personal meaning."

—Norman K Denzin, The reflexive interview and a performative social science, Qualitative Research 2001; 1; 23

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