{"product_id":"goffman-and-the-media-hardback-9780745688886","title":"Goffman and the Media (Hardback) 9780745688886","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGoffman and the Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Lunt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745688886, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 13.7 x 2 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Baym, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSun Sun Lim, Singapore Management University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJefferson Pooley, Muhlenberg College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eErving 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginal and incisive, \u003ci\u003eGoffman and the Media\u003c\/i\u003e is crucial reading for students and scholars encountering this fascinating thinker from a media studies perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1: The Reception of Goffman’s Work in Media and Communication\u003cbr\u003e 2: Goffman’s Work: Themes of Communication and Media\u003cbr\u003e 3: Mediated Social Interaction\u003cbr\u003e 4: Interactionism and Media Sociology\u003cbr\u003e 5: Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407341089048,"sku":"9780745688886","price":42.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745688886.jpg?v=1784163569","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/goffman-and-the-media-hardback-9780745688886","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}