Goffman and the Media : Theory and Media - Peter Lunt

Goffman and the Media

By: Peter Lunt

Paperback | 13 December 2024

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Erving Goffman's much-loved works are still widely cited in the field of media and communication. His work has 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 important new book, Peter Lunt critically reconstructs Goffman's analysis of language and the 'interaction order'. He examines how and why the concepts developed by Goffman - face-work and the mediated self, front and back stage, impression management, media frames and logics, footing and interaction rituals - still resonate across the field. Ultimately, Goffman's work 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.
Industry Reviews
"This insightful volume offers reviews, contextualizations, and critiques of Goffman’s work. Lunt explains why concepts like framing, impression management and facework resonate in media studies despite Goffman’s focus on unmediated interaction, and suggests how deeper readings of both Goffman and his critics might further unpack how everyday interactions through and with media create social systems."
Nancy Baym, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research

"Goffman’s ideas were ahead of his time in illuminating our understanding of technologically-mediated social interaction that is commonplace today. Even as we see a proliferation of social media platforms, virtual interaction realms and Generative AI-powered chatbots, this insightful volume captures the enduring value and relevance of Goffman’s work."
Sun Sun Lim, Singapore Management University

"It is a paradox that Erving Goffman—the single most influential figure for scholars of digital life—treated media topics only sparingly. Peter Lunt, in the first work of its kind, explains how that came to be—and takes readers backstage, as it were, to show that Goffman’s lessons for media researchers are, even today, mostly untapped."
Jefferson Pooley, Muhlenberg College

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