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

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(https://exploringyourmind.com/social-dramaturgy-develop-masks-interact/)


People's performances in the Internet world 

What picture would a person choose to post on social media 

What tones/emojis would a person choose to use through online chatting 

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(https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/427701295868658076/)


Reference list

Bruce, Bertram C. (1996). Technology as social practice. Educational Foundations, 10(4), 51-58. [ISSN 1047-8248]

Goffman, Erving. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Doubleday.


Comments

  1. YixuanSeptember 18, 2022 at 5:03 PM

    As a video lover, I just thought that all the videos came from the random shooting of life. Later, I realized that all the videos and blogs of bloggers need to be designed and scripted. Like some of the hilarious routines on TikTok, they're actually scripted. But in our online lives, we do need to act out something to hide who we really are.

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  2. DZSeptember 19, 2022 at 5:19 PM

    I find the idea of describing social interactions with theatrical presentation very interesting. Nowadays, people see or watch a lot of videos in different forms such as ads, news, and others, and they could be anywhere, on the street or in the elevator. Describing in such way, social interaction and behavior can be better remembered and interpreted in everyday life.

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  3. Shiyue PengSeptember 20, 2022 at 11:55 AM

    I really like the idea that people's interaction on the internet is more like a prepared "performance". It reminds me of the reading of What is Blog. The author categorizes one kind of the blog as "personal blog" for which people use to record some slices of their daily life and construct their personas on the internet. This could be a prepared "performance" since we cannot have a holistic picture of this blogger, but can only construct their image from what we are shown.

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