Kim Kardashian’s Self-Publishing Stage and Her Audience Imitators

The Dramaturgical Theory of Social Media Platforms in the New Media Age

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.195How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Dramaturgical theory; The New Media Age; Social Media

Abstract

Social new media platforms have promoted the new-media information dissemination mechanism, by which many people are performing themselves with different personal symbols. The American sociologist Irving Goffman proposed Dramaturgical theory, which means people in society are seen as actors performing on a huge stage, using various symbols to present themselves and trying to get good results or attention. With the rapid development of social media, this theoretical prediction has been observed among many media platforms. This study uses Kim Kardashian as a representative example of how actors are using media platforms as a stage to perform and sell themselves to audiences through their online symbols. Meanwhile, in the same process, social media platforms become a huge stage of public engagement. It is argued in this study that a section of the audience is just the viewers of her, while part of the audience becomes Kim Kardashian’s imitators in a new cycle of performance.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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AU  - Yuhan Ma
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TI  - Kim Kardashian’s Self-Publishing Stage and Her Audience Imitators
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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