Dramaturgical Theory in social media

Abstract

In the current age, daily life is highly integrated with electronic devices and inner software. The intensive social media use of people is the most striking; the structure and the functions of social media are advanced, which can be an extension of the real world. The online society has become another independent social field for people. Social media mix the traditional front stage and corresponding backstage, and the unique communication method also brings many methods to build self-version for users. However, people socialize in this online area, which forms some unexpected good and bad results. Hence, even though there are previous studies that summarized the differences between the traditional social area and the social applications, it can be found that some aspects are not discussed by the former research about the dramaturgical theory in reality. These are contemporary or newer fields to discuss. Therefore, this paper attempt to infer how Goffman’s dramaturgical theory plays a role in a new stylish social platform and aims to analyze the mixture clearly. Finally, this paper finds that the combination of the dramaturgical theory with the social websites will produce some differences and changes in users, and these impacts will cause harm and positive results at the same time.