Goffman and the Media

Peter Lunt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8888-6 (ISBN)

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Erving Goffman’s much-loved works are widely cited in media and communication studies. His books have stimulated research on news framing, mass media and social media, inviting new insights about how communication, self, audiences and public life are mediated by, but also transcend, particular technological forms. What explains the continuing relevance of this highly original theorist?

In this book, Peter Lunt critically examines how and why the concepts developed by Goffman – face-work and the mediated self, frontstage and backstage, impression management, media frames and logics, footing and interaction rituals – still resonate across the field. Ultimately, Goffman’s sociology emerges not only as an enduring influence, but as a source of new inspiration in our ever more interactive world.

Original and incisive, Goffman and the Media is crucial reading for students and scholars encountering this fascinating thinker from a media studies perspective.

Peter Lunt is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester.

Acknowledgements

1: The Reception of Goffman’s Work in Media and Communication
2: Goffman’s Work: Themes of Communication and Media
3: Mediated Social Interaction
4: Interactionism and Media Sociology
5: Conclusions

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Theory and Media
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7456-8888-8 / 0745688888
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-8888-6 / 9780745688886
Zustand	Neuware