[Commlist] New Open Access Book: Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access 
publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are 
excited to announce the publication of Erving Goffman’s remarkable 1953 
dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community:

https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-community

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s 
most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is 
published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his 
birth. The study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, 
presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed 
as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation 
lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark 
Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture 
insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in 
communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and 
final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin 
writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” 
It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his 
peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.

The book is available online and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A 
paperback version is also available.

https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-community

Communication Conduct in an Island Community appears in the Public 
Domain series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other 
series are encouraged to reach out with a query:

https://www.mediastudies.press/queries

You can learn more about mediastudies.press, including our operations 
and OA principles, on our site:

https://www.mediastudies.press/about

The press is a member of the Open Book Collective and the ScholarLed 
consortium, and also publishes the History of Media Studies journal. 
Please contact us at press@mediastudies.press


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