Alcohol self-presentation: the role of impression motivation and impression construction

Abstract This article explores the Instagram activities of Agnès Varda and her Visages Villages (Faces Places, France, 2017) codirector JR to consider the role of social media in the film's theatrical release and awards campaign, which led to the film's nomination for Best Documentary Feature—Varda's first and only Academy Award nomination. Through analysis of Varda's posts and her appearances on JR's Instagram, the author argues that social media complemented the film's conventional promotion while extending Varda's aesthetic practices and interests, offering one of the final examples of her consistent, enthusiastic experiments with new forms of media. On Instagram, Varda recycled and recontextualized the strategies of self-presentation and formal play seen in her documentaries for a different format, as she posted images and videos involving premieres, special events, and press coverage from her perspective. Throughout the film's release and awards campaign, social media began to function as an atypical way to draw attention to the film and its directors, especially for a low-budget documentary. The Visages Villages team merged traditional methods of achieving visibility with an unusual and intentional online presence, culminating in substantial coverage from new types of outlets when JR traveled to the Academy Awards luncheon with cardboard cutouts of Varda.

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"THE SYNTHESIS OF WAR AND THEATRE": SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN DISCOURSE ON THE ESSENCE OF TERRORISM

RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series ◽

10.28995/2686-7249-2020-8-10-23 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 10-23

Author(s):

Irina V Malygina ◽

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Anna V Malygina ◽

Keyword(s):

International Terrorism ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

Self Presentation ◽

The Status ◽

World Cultural Heritage ◽

The One ◽

Strategic Object ◽

The Given

The article reveals the heuristic potential of social and humanitarian knowledge in understanding the complex nature of terrorism. The given research optics allows to expand traditional frameworks of considering terrorism as a phenomenon caused by political, ideological and economic factors; to reveal and substantiate deep cultural and mental reasons of the given phenomenon; make sense of terrorism as a destructive form of cultural identity. The cultural and historical origins of modern terrorism, which is closely connected with radical Islam, are analyzed in the civilizational system of coordinates “West–East”. The system of argumentation is based on scientific concepts and current artistic practices that interpret the causes of inter-civilizational tension resulting in international terrorism. The change of the status of the artist in the “epoch of terrorism” is analyzed; the theme of theatricalization and aestheticization of terrorist actions and the role of media in these processes are problematized. As a newest trend, which has not received any serious theoretical reflection, the text considers the phenomenon conditionally designated as “sublimation of terrorist activity into a symbolic sphere”, which is manifested in the destruction of monuments of world cultural heritage, in the orientation to culture as a new strategic object of terrorist attacks, on the one hand, and the use of cultural resources for self-presentation and promotion of their ideology by terrorist organizations, on the other

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Older and Younger Job Seekers' Impression Management on LinkedIn

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000269 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 61-74

Author(s):

Franciska Krings ◽

Irina Gioaba ◽

Michèle Kaufmann ◽

Sabine Sczesny ◽

Leslie Zebrowitz

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Networking ◽

Impression Management ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

The Internet ◽

Job Seekers ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Job Offers ◽

Research Show

Abstract. The use of social networking sites such as LinkedIn in recruitment is ubiquitous. This practice may hold risks for older job seekers. Not having grown up using the internet and having learned how to use social media only in middle adulthood may render them less versed in online self-presentation than younger job seekers. Results of this research show some differences and many similarities between younger and older job seekers' impression management on their LinkedIn profiles. Nevertheless, independent of their impression management efforts, older job seekers received fewer job offers than younger job seekers. Only using a profile photo with a younger appearance reduced this bias. Implications for the role of job seeker age in online impression management and recruitment are discussed.

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Resilience and the Mobility of Identity: Belonging and Change among Turkana Herders in Northern Kenya

Nomadic Peoples ◽

10.3197/np.2021.250204 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 226-252

Author(s):

Greta Semplici

Keyword(s):

Collective Identity ◽

External Support ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Northern Kenya ◽

Shared Identity ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Economic Transformations ◽

Political Category

Ideas of resilience are not new; they have travelled across several disciplines, stretching their original meanings to a considerable degree, turning into a 'key political category of our time' (Neocleous 2013). For the case of pastoralist groups, discussions about resilience predominantly concern the state of pastoralism as a unitary and fixed entity and its prospects for survival in a world in turmoil (climate change, diseases and epidemics, conflicts, socio-economic transformations). In this context, references to resilience generally allude to local vulnerability, purporting the need for external support. These accounts tend to ignore local voices and perceptions and neglect the role of identity, culture and change in self-presentation and everyday life. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the northern Kenyan drylands, this article flips dominant perspectives on pastoralism and resilience, following the herders' self-definition, their construction of a shared identity and their, at times contradictory, positioning as part of a broader society. It argues that part of their resilience rests in the feeling of belonging and solidarity around a collective identity, built in opposition to urbanities along symbolic boundaries. The article however shows how such identity remains nonetheless flexible and responsive to change, disrupting dichotomies and weaving different social worlds, such as rural and urban, together. Such flexibility is also an important element of resilience for the capacity to change, stay attentive, and mobile.

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Exploring choking experiences in elite sport: The role of self-presentation

Psychology of Sport and Exercise ◽

10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.09.001 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 ◽

pp. 141-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Denise M. Hill ◽

Sarah Carvell ◽

Nic Matthews ◽

Neil J.V. Weston ◽

Richard R.C. Thelwell

Keyword(s):

Elite Sport ◽

Self Presentation

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Self-Presentation and Adolescent Altruistic Behaviors in Social Networks

Complexity ◽

10.1155/2020/1719564 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Yaling Zhu ◽

Yue Shen ◽

Qiang Zhao

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Opinion Formation ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Positive Prediction ◽

Network Support ◽

Social Ability ◽

Spreading Dynamics ◽

Intermediary Role ◽

The Impact

Social networks provide a convenient place for people to interact; members in social networks may create new connections or break existing connections, driving the evolution of complex network structure. Dynamics in social networks, such as opinion formation and spreading dynamics, may result in complex collective phenomena. This paper conducts a survey on 495 students from six schools in Shaanxi, Henan, and Zhejiang provinces and discusses the impact of self-presentation on adolescent network altruistic behaviors, the intermediary role of social ability cognition, and the moderating role of privacy awareness. The results show the following: (1) Self-presentation in social networks can positively predict adolescent network altruistic behaviors. The positive prediction effect of network sharing is the largest, and the positive prediction effect of network support is the least. (2) Social ability cognition plays an intermediary role between self-presentation and adolescent network altruistic behaviors. (3) The moderating effect of privacy awareness is not significant.

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