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Dramaturgical perspective in the Internet world

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       In Erving Goffman's book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life," published in 1959, he developed the dramaturgical perspective. In it, Goffman offers a framework for comprehending social interaction and behavior by using the metaphor of a theatrical presentation. He contends that social interactions are "performances" put on by "teams" of players in "front stage," "back stage," and "off stage" settings. And when we think about today's online world, human interaction seems to have turned into a more prepared "performance". Technologies are not just tools, they are encoded in social relations and conversely, social relations can be represented in technologies (Bruce, 1996).  Goffman's dramaturgical approach A person's "appearance" in social interactions The impact of a person's conduct on the performance as a whole ... (https://exploringyourmind.com/social-dramaturgy-develop-ma