Goffman and the Media

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8888-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lunt, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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