scholarly journals Identifiability and self-presentation: Computer-mediated communication and intergroup interaction

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Douglas ◽  
Craig McGarty
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Intergroup Interaction ◽  
Computer Mediated

Exploring Online Dating in Line With the “Social Compensation” and “Rich-Get-Richer” Hypotheses

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Samantha Stinson ◽  
Debora Jeske
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Rich

Computer-mediated communication offers a range of potentially appealing features, including selective self-presentation, social presence control, and simultaneous as well as asynchronous interaction tools. The study examines the influence of personality (introversion and extraversion) and personal variables (social anxiety and public self-consciousness) on online dating preferences from two competing perspectives: the “social compensation” (SC) hypothesis and the “rich-get-richer” (RGR) hypothesis. Survey results (N = 162) revealed that the SC and RGR hypotheses do not hold true within the context of online dating. The findings suggest a stronger role of social influence (e.g., peers) in the decision to online date. The SC and RGR hypotheses may be limited in terms of the extent to which these frameworks adequately explain this online behavior. This may also be due to the increasing popularity of online dating sites, which may make personality and personal traits less informative of whether individuals will opt to use such services.

scholarly journals Selective Self-Presentation on Video-Mediated Communication: A Study of Hyperpersonal Communication

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Palupi Palupi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Nonverbal Cues ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Web Camera ◽  
Device Technology

The development of Internet and communication technology has been increasing from time to time. Humans around the globe are connected to digital communication device. Technology has been growing and changing the way people communicate; from text-based computer-mediated communication to video-mediated communication. The study is conducted to determine whether the online users in VMC perform selective self-presentation under conditions when nonverbal cues are present and the interlocutor is not anonymous. This study is a qualitative research with semi-structured interview as its method. Findings in this study showed that participants perform selective self-presentation in VMC. By wearing veil for females or combing hair for males, tiding up the room and table, choosing certain place, also hiding something from the web camera scope are the ways they present themselves to obtain good impression and avoid bad impression from interlocutorsThe findings also discovered that participants perform selective self-presentation to ordinary friends, colleagues, or acquaintances with the same way and the same reason why they perform it when nonverbal cues are present. However, participants do not perform selective self-presentation to family and close friends.

scholarly journals SELF-PRESENTATION PROCESSES IN PERSONAL PROFILES IN A PRO-ANOREXIA GROUP

Normas ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Carolina Figueras Bates
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Home Pages ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Personal Home Pages ◽  
Verbal Strategies

This paper presents the results of a content analysis of 1000 personal profiles posted on a pro-anorexia (pro-ana) group from the social networking site Xanga. Applying methods of computer-mediated communication discourse analysis, the visual and verbal strategies of self-presentation in pro-ana members’ profiles were examined. Competence, ingratiation, exemplification and supplication emerged as the main self-presentation strategies identified in the text-based profiles. In contrast to other online self-presentations (such as personal home pages and weblogs), new contents and meanings related to a pro-ana social identity were assigned to these strategies in the group. The analysis of the profile pictures revealed that pro-ana users of the site tended to remain visually anonymous, resorting to images of models and celebrities, and reproducing the thin ideal. Based on these findings, this study advances some conclusions about how the pro-ana identity is constructed in social networking sites.

Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-135
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Walther ◽  
Monica T. Whitty
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Internet Diffusion ◽  
Hyperpersonal Model

Research on the hyperpersonal model originally described how the substitution of language for nonverbal cues, necessitated by text-based computer-mediated communication systems, transforms users’ reception, self-presentation, composition, and reciprocal reinforcement of messages in ways that create socially desirable relationships online. This article reviews the model after 25 years. It explicates the original model and mentions a sample of illustrative findings. It reflects on the state of internet diffusion and research traditions in the 1990s that affected the model’s original focus, and how these conditions have changed. It enumerates contexts that continue to meet the model’s original boundary assumptions, and some boundary expansions. It explores ways in which the model’s principles extend into contemporary multi-modal social media. It illustrates the evolutionary applicability of the model through cases of deceptive online romances, including contemporary online romance scams. It concludes by suggesting future research examining how many contemporary social media performances and responses comport with and illustrate the model’s tenets, at scale.

Exploring Online Dating in Line with the “Social Compensation” and “Rich-Get-Richer” Hypotheses

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Stinson ◽  
Debora Jeske
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Rich

Computer-mediated communication offers a range of potentially appealing features, including selective self-presentation, social presence control, and simultaneous as well as asynchronous interaction tools. The study examines the influence of personality (introversion and extraversion) and personal variables (social anxiety and public self-consciousness) on online dating preferences from two competing perspectives: the “social compensation” (SC) hypothesis and the “rich-get-richer” (RGR) hypothesis. Survey results (N = 162) revealed that the SC and RGR hypotheses do not hold true within the context of online dating. The findings suggest a stronger role of social influence (e.g., peers) in the decision to online date. The SC and RGR hypotheses may be limited in terms of the extent to which these frameworks adequately explain this online behavior. This may also be due to the increasing popularity of online dating sites, which may make personality and personal traits less informative of whether individuals will opt to use such services.

When the Ethic is Functional to the Method

2004 ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Olivero ◽  
Peter Lunt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Interviewer Effect ◽  
Feminist Ethic ◽  
E Mail

This chapter explores the methodological implications of using e-mail for qualitative interviews. It draws on computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature to remark that, contrary to generalized assumptions, technological-based anonymity does not always correspond to increased self-disclosure. Conversely, it is shown that e-mail interviews make the interviewer effect unavoidable, stimulate reflexivity and must rely on trust and equal participation more than face-to-face interviews. To address the interviewee’s resistance and avoid unwanted phenomena of strategic self-presentation, a model of interview based on a feminist ethic is proposed.

To be attractive or to be authentic? How two competing motivations influence self-presentation in online dating

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1143-1165
Author(s):  
Kun Peng
Keyword(s):  
Mate Selection ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Information Manipulation ◽  
Deceptive Communication

PurposeThis paper examines how and why online daters, differentiated by gender, strategically self-present in online dating profiles when pursuing two competing goals: attracting potential daters and avoiding detection as a liar.Design/methodology/approachA survey and a content analysis were employed to test four hypotheses.FindingsThe results revealed that seeking to project an attractive image in online dating was significantly associated with acquisitive self-presentation. The online daters adopted falsification more than any other strategies, and women were more likely than men to embellish their self-presentation, especially their physical appearance.Originality/valueThe findings clarify people's mate selection processes in light of the interpersonal deception theory (IDT) and the information manipulation theory (IMT) as well as take an evolutionary psychological perspective on computer-mediated communication. For practitioners, they provide a more nuanced picture of deceptive communication in online dating and, for online daters, can guide the adaptation of their online behaviors.

scholarly journals The "fascist" discourse in computer mediated communication: the "dual strategy" model of the Italian Extreme Right

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Tateo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Dual Strategy

The study is about the identity construction of Italian Extreme Right groups in different Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) environments. Rhetoric Psychology and Critical Discourse Analysis joint approaches are used to analyse two websites and two newsgroups of extreme right. The results confirm Billig's hypothesis that such groups play a dual communication strategy in Computer Mediated Communication, addressing in different ways to the outgroup and the ingroup. This communication strategy has two different functions. In self-presentation towards the outgroup, the emerging group identity fulfils the search for a wider social legitimation, consensus and recruiting. In the ingroup communication, the emerging identity construction answers to the need for preservation of group cohesion and positive self-image.

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