Mantz, Jeffrey W.Mogaddedi, Salman2014-03-152014-03-152014-03-15https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8676This thesis examines how users perform on the social networking site known as Twitter. It surveys the works of Erving Goffman, Victor Turner and contemporary thinkers such as Sherry Turkle and Tom Boellstorff. The goal is to discover whether the theories of symbolic interactionism, dramaturgy, performance and virtual communities apply to current usage of Twitter. And whether Twitter as it is used by millions of people around the world provides any new insights for social theorists.enErving GoffmanSocial mediaTwitterAnthropologyPerformanceVirtual communityThesis