Registers of Performance: Negotiating the Professional, Personal and Intimate in Online Persona Creation

2015 ◽  
pp. 57-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Online Persona

scholarly journals Exploring the Etiological Pathways of Problematic Pornography Use in NoFap/PornFree Rebooting Communities: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Internet Forum Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra Chasioti ◽  
James Binnie
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Online Persona ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Everyday Living

AbstractProblematic pornography use (PPU) has been extensively studied in terms of its negative implications for various life domains. The empirical literature reveals measured outcomes of interpersonal and intrapersonal dysfunction in participants’ everyday living, supporting its classification as a disorder. The increasing number of complaints around PPU opens the door to the creation of online self-help rebooting communities. This qualitative study aimed to provide a better understanding of this behavior by investigating potential etiological pathways contributing to the onset of PPU, as they were expressed by members of the online NoFap/PornFree self-help communities with self-perceived PPU. The critical narrative analysis reveals a complex web of mutually informing causal connections. The dialectical relationship between situational resources, material conditions, and an embodied spectator gives rise to an online persona with motivations of self-exploration, experimentation, and socializing. A sense of vulnerability rendered the use of pornography as a means of escape and validation. Furthermore, commitment to abstinence, framed by the notions of recovery and relapse, was found to be a major factor for maintaining distress. The study highlighted the need for a thorough understanding of the etiological pathways of PPU for a more effective and targeted intervention. Moving beyond biomedical conceptualizations suggests an intervention whereby PPU is placed in a context of a crisis of meaning.

scholarly journals Five Dimensions of Online Persona

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Moore ◽  
Kim Barbour ◽  
Katja Lee
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Online Persona ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Digital Identities

Before Facebook, Twitter, and most of the digital media platforms that now form routine parts of our online lives, Jay Bolter (2000) anticipated that online activities would reshape how we understand and produce identity: a ‘networked self’, he noted, ‘is displacing Cartesian printed self as a cultural paradigm’ (2000, p. 26). The twenty-first century has not only produced a proliferation and mass popularisation of platforms for the production of public digital identities, but also an explosion of scholarship investigating the relationship between such identities and technology. These approaches have mainly focussed on the relations between humans and their networks of other human connections, often neglecting the broader implications of what personas are and might be, and ignoring the rise of the non-human as part of social networks. In this introductory essay, we seek to both trace the work done so far to explore subjectivity and the public presentation of the self via networked technologies, and contribute to these expanding accounts by providing a brief overview of what we consider to be five important dimensions of an online persona. In the following, we identify and explicate the five dimensions of persona as public, mediatised, performative, collective and having intentional value and, while we acknowledge that these dimensions are not exhaustive or complete, they are certainly primary.

Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Csilla Weninger ◽  
Danyun Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Analytic Methods ◽  
Celebrity Status ◽  
Online Persona ◽  
Phatic Communication

ABSTRACT Contemporary digital media is characterized by a cultural logic of participation that encourages sharing, confession, phatic communication, and an emphasis on the visual. In this techno-cultural milieu, self-presentation has become a key mode of communication, and has enabled ordinary individuals to attain a measure of celebrity status. A key component of being a microcelebrity entails developing a consistent persona that is recognizable and unique. How such persona can be studied from the sociolinguistic perspective of stance and style is the focus of this article. We combined corpus linguistic and qualitative discourse analytic methods to examine a small corpus of videos produced by Chinese online celebrity, Papi Jiang. The article presents key lexico-grammatical, discourse-level, and non-linguistic resources that are analyzed as stance markers that together contribute to Papi's intense, critical-satirical performative style. The significance of the findings is discussed in relation to performance, performativity, and critique in digital media. (Persona, microcelebrity, style, performance, stance)*

Television use in the 21st century: An exploration of television and social television use in a multiplatform environment

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Cha
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Video Viewing ◽  
Television Use ◽  
Online Persona

Recognizing the multiplatform and individualized video viewing environment, this study conducted focus groups to delve into reasons behind the choice and use of television over other types of video platforms, and the motives for using social television. The results suggest that the focus group participants feel affection for television as a medium itself — a feeling that is independent of the content available on television. The motives for seeking social television include a sense of community, social bonding with existing networks, reinforcement of an online persona, entertainment, information sharing, social movement, self-documentation, and incentives.

Using Retweets to Shape our Online Persona: A Topic Modeling Approach

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilah Geva ◽  
Gal Oestreicher-Singer ◽  
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Online Persona

Aggression in the Digital Era: Assessing the Validity of the Cyber Motivations for Aggression and Deviance Scale

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112199008
Author(s):  
Dominick DeMarsico ◽  
Nadia Bounoua ◽  
Rickie Miglin ◽  
Naomi Sadeh
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Cyber Aggression ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
Online Persona ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
Thrill Seeking

Empirical studies of adult cyber-aggression are sparse, partly due to a lack of validated assessments. We evaluated a new measure, the Cyber Motivations for Aggression and Deviance (Cyber-MAD) scale, designed to assess the motivations of adult cyber-aggression. Psychometric properties and factor structure were examined across three adult samples who regularly used the internet and reported a history of cyber-aggression. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the motivations for cyber-aggression indicated an eight-factor model best fit the data, with separable factors emerging for cyber-aggression motivated by a desire to affiliate with others ( Social Bonding), advance or defend political/social issues ( Social Activism), act on angry feelings ( Reactive Aggression), cope with relationship stress ( Interpersonal Distress), satisfy impulsive urges ( Impulsivity), adopt a new online persona ( Virtual Dissociation), experience excitement ( Thrill-Seeking), and seek revenge ( Vengeance). Overall, the Cyber-MAD scale showed good internal consistency, structural stability across samples, and construct validity, supporting its initial validation.

scholarly journals Online Persona Research: An Instagram Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Barbour ◽  
Katja Lee ◽  
Christopher Moore
Keyword(s):  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Online Persona ◽  
Self Presentations ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Key Nodes

<p>In the last issue’s editorial, “Five Dimensions of Online Persona” (Moore, Barbour and Lee 2017), we turned our attention to the proliferation of public identities through online platforms, and traced key nodes of research that inform how we think about and theorise online personas. We also proposed and outlined five primary dimensions to the online persona that we characterised as public, mediatised, performative, collective, and having intentional value. The scope of that work was deliberately broad and far-reaching—we envisioned that piece as neither tool nor template but, we hoped, a conceptual starting point for further thinking and research.</p><p>In this editorial we seek to continue that work by putting these theoretical foundations and concepts into practice through a study of the persona work of Instagram. This work constitutes, in many cases, significant labour: decisions are made and remade around sharing different types of images, along with the use of hashtags, framing, timing, filters, captions, or tags. Abidin (2016, p. 90) describes this as “visibility labour”, which is “the work individuals do when they self-posture and curate their self-presentations so as to be noticeable and positively prominent” to their audiences or micro-publics, and notes that the labour itself becomes invisible in the persona creation process. This distributed visibility labour forms the basis of persona work, where users and their micro-publics, in conjunction with the platform and the algorithms that drive it, are continually iterating on the persona that is produced. </p>

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