online. Social media users create profiles and post things that are specifically curated to portray a certain image that they want their followers to see. Often times this curated image is a facade. This is an “authoritative performance” of ones lifestyle. A dynamic is created between the user and their followers where the user is in control of how and what represents them, while the followers are spectators to this presentation of the user's self but they themselves are also presenting themselves in the same way. Dramaturgy can also be applied to all aspects of theatre performers. See also Epistemic virtue Character mask Role engulfment Signalling theory References Further reading Brissett, Dennis, and Charles Edgley, eds. 1990. Life as Theater: A Dramaturgical Source Book (2nd ed.). New York: Walter de Gruyter. Cohen, Robert. 2004. "Role Distance: On Stage and On the Merry-Go-Round." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Edgley, Charles, ed. 2013. The Drama of Social Life: A Dramaturgical Handbook. UK: Ashgate Publishing Co. Goffman, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday. External links Goffman, Erving. "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: The Main Argument, and the Starting Assumption." The Glamour of Motives: Applications of Kenneth Burke within the Sociological Field. Interpersonal relationships Symbolic interactionism Erving Goffman Everyday life