scholarly journals “Gendering” the Self in Online Dating Discourse

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melonie Fullick
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Gender Presentation ◽  
Insight Into

Online dating has become an increasingly acceptable way for “singles” to meet appropriate partners. The author uses discourse analysis to explore the use of language in the construction of gendered identities in 20 online profiles, comparing the norms of gender presentation and communication with the ways in which language is used to signal various kinds of gendered “selves.” Dating sites require users to develop a new literacy of self-presentation, one that reinforces and re-inscribes the tendency toward promotionalism that permeates contemporary social life. In this context, how are Internet and social media users tapping into existing social and cultural resources and putting gender norms to work in their representations of self? How do online dating sites provide insight into an ongoing, reflexive process of self-promotion and self-construction?Les services de rencontre en ligne sont devenus un moyen de plus en plus acceptable pour les célibataires de chercher des partenaires convenables. Dans cet article, l’auteure a recours à l’analyse du discours afin d’explorer, dans vingt profils en ligne, l’utilisation du langage pour la construction d’une identité sexuée. L’auteure compare les normes de présentation et de communication de genre avec la manière dont le langage est utilisé pour afficher diverses sortes de soi sexués. Les sites de rencontre obligent les utilisateurs à développer une nouvelle présentation de soi qui renforce et réinscrit une tendance à ce type de promotion qui est si présent dans la vie sociale contemporaine. Dans ce contexte, comment les utilisateurs d’internet et des médias sociaux utilisent-ils les ressources sociales et culturelles qui sont à leur disposition et comment incorporent-ils les normes de genre dans leurs représentations de soi? Comment d’autre part les sites de rencontre permettent-ils de mieux comprendre les processus continus et réflexifs de la promotion et de la construction de soi?

FASHION BLOGGERS AS CELEBRITY EXPERTS IN RUSSIAN-SPOKEN SEGMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Zemfira K. Salamova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World

Social media has contributed to the spread of fashion, style or lifestyle blogging around the world. This study focuses on self-presentation strategies of Russian-speaking fashion bloggers. Its objects are Instagram accounts and YouTube channels of two Russian fashion bloggers: Alexander Rogov and Karina Nigay. The study also observes their appearances as guests in various interview shows on YouTube. Alexander Rogov received his initial fame through his television projects. Karina Nigay achieved popularity online on YouTube and Instagram, therefore she is a “pure” example of Internet celebritiy, whose rise to fame took place on the Internet. The article includes the following objectives 1) to study the self-branding of fashion bloggers on various online platforms; 2) to analyze the construction of fashion bloggers’ expert positions and its role in their personal brands. Turning to fashion blogging allows us to consider how its representatives build their personal brands and establish themselves as experts in the field of fashion and style in Russianlanguage social media.

scholarly journals RASA MALU DAN PRESENTASI DIRI REMAJA DI MEDIA SOSIAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Herdyani Kusumasari ◽  
Diana Savitri Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Active User

An individual will perform self-impression to be accepted by society and can establish a social relationship. Someone do the self presentation so they can be accepted by the environment. However, there are some people which have obstacle to do their self presentation to make a social relationship.  We can called that condition with shyness. Social media can be well accepted a mediator for shy person to presented their self. The purpose of this research is to find out the correlation between shynees with self presentation on adolosence in social media. This research has done to 96 sample of 13 – 16 years old active user of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Path, Instagram, Blog, and Youtube. The result with Pearson Product Moment test says the coeficient correlation (r) between two variables is 0,281. That is shows that between the two variables have a positive correlation with the signification level is 0,006 (p < 0,05) which says that the two variables have a significant correlation.Abstrak: Individu akan melakukan pengelolaan kesan agar dapat diterima oleh masyarakat dan dapat menjalin sebuah hubungan sosial. Presentasi diri dilakukan agar individu dapat diterima dengan baik oleh lingkungan sekitarnya. Namun, beberapa orang akan mengalami suatu hambatan dalam melakukan presentasi dirinya secara langsung untuk melakukan suatu hubungan sosial. Kondisi tersebut dapat dikatakan sebagai rasa malu (shyness). Media sosial merupakan salah satu perantara bagi orang pemalu untuk melakukan presentasi dirinya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara rasa malu dengan presentasi diri remaja melalui media sosial. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada 96 orang remaja berusia 13 – 16 tahun yang aktif di media sosial yaitu Facebook, Twitter, Path, Instagram, Blog, dan Youtube. Hasil yang diperoleh dengan uji Pearson Product Moment menunjukkan koefisien korelasi (r) antara kedua variabel sebesar 0,281 dengan taraf signifikasinya adalah 0,006 (p < 0,05), hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa antara kedua variabel memiliki hubungan positif yang signifikan.   

scholarly journals WAJAH “LAMAHOLOT CYBER-SELF”: CATATAN ETNOGRAFIS VIRTUAL ATAS PRESENTASI DIRI ANGGOTA GRUP FACEBOOK “SUARA FLOTIM”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurelius RL Teluma ◽  
Rini Kartini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Text ◽  
Political Dimensions

Social media is a socio-technological entity. Social media text is a representation of the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of its users. When social media was known and used by the young generation of the Lamaholot people, there was a cultural interaction with the Lamaholot Lika Telo kinship culture which gave birth to identity and Lamaholot-cyber self. This research is textual-contextual research using virtual ethnographic methods that aim to identify and describe the general characteristics of Lamaholot-cyber social media characteristics. The subjects examined are Lamaholot Facebook users who are members of a Facebook group "Suara Flotim". The virtual ethnographic observations of the self-presentation of Lamaholot Facebookers showed that the cyber Lamaholot was a self and a discursive identity even to be paradoxical entity.

The murder of Charles Taylor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Yardley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter analyses the murder of Charles Taylor by his daughter-in-law, Amanda Taylor, in Virginia. On April 4, 2015, 59-year-old Charles Taylor was killed by Amanda, then 24, and her friend, 32-year-old Sean Ball. During the visit, the conversation turned to the topic of Rex Taylor, Amanda's late husband, who had committed suicide in August 2014. Amanda blamed Charles for Rex's suicide. The case highlight the performance of valued gendered identities through networked media prior to, during and following the homicide. The chapter first provides a background on Amanda's relationship with Rex and Charles Taylor as well as on Sean Ball before considering the context that yields some insight into Amanda as a homicide perpetrator. It also examines Amanda's media practices and her social media posts about the murder, media coverage of her while she was in prison, and her identity management as a killer.

scholarly journals Profiling the Self in Mobile Online Dating Apps: a Serial Picture Analysis

Human Arenas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Lisa Degen ◽  
Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Free Association ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Picture Analysis ◽  
Self Presentations ◽  
Profile Pictures

AbstractProfiles in the widely used phenomenon of mobile online dating applications are characteristically reduced to condensed information mostly containing one or a few pictures. Thus, these picture(s) play a significant role for the decision-making processes and success, supposedly holding vital meaning for the subjects. While profile pictures in social media are omnipresent and some research has already focused on these pictures, especially selfies, there has been little attention with regards to the actual self-presentation when mobile online dating. In this paper, we show the results of a reconstructive serial analysis of 524 mobile online dating profile pictures investigating how subjects present themselves in the context of a mobile online dating app. This context is highly specific and characterized by continuous and dichotomous judgments by (unknown) others, unseen competition, and permanent validation of the self. Despite the conceivable multitude of possible self-presentations, our analysis led to eight clear types of self-presentation. Contemplating on subject’s good reasons for presenting the self as one of many and not as varied and unique when mobile online dating, we refer to the discourse of the private self (Gergen, The saturated self: Dilemmas of identity in contemporary life, Basic Books, New York, 1991; Rose, Governing the soul: Shaping of the private self, Free Association Books, London, 2006) and to (Holzkamp, 1983. Grundlagen der Psychologie. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.) concept of restrictive and generalized agency in a context of socially constituted norms.

scholarly journals How does social media negatively affects the beginning of relationships?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Aronowicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
People Search ◽  
The Way

“Between 2005 and 2012 more than one third of couples who got married in the United States met through an online dating site. Online dating was the single biggest way people met their spouses. Bigger than work, friends, and school combined.” Aziz Ansari, (2015).Romantic relationships have drastically changed in today’s world, affected by the role of social media and deeply changing the way we interact with each other. The way we approach one another might seems standard today, but importantly differs from what people did even just decades ago. The percentage of people meeting online keeps rising while traditional ways of finding your partner are constantly decreasing.Online dating transformed our romantic lives; single people today have more romantic options than ever. The new trend of online romantic relationships leads to various questionings. Why do people decide to use social media to interact with each other rather than approaching someone in the street and invite him/her for diner? The issue of online self-presentation, the necessity of body language, and how does this change affect us in finding our life partner? It is this change we want to focus on, to try and find out how the rise of online dating drastically affected the art of finding a companion. The aim is to intent to understand the different intentions behind social media when concerning romantic relationships. We can ask ourselves for instance, do people search today for long term connection when chatting on the net or maybe more alternative motives.Of course, the rise of social media implies some new challenges and risks that are necessary to mention, we will mainly focus on how social media negatively affects the beginning of romantic relationships.Throughout the paper we will first focus on 5 focus points based on related work to the topic, in order to organize the information. The aim is to understand the connection between romantic relationships and social media, how do we present ourselves online, media richness, the Initiation of social ties on social media and finally analyzes the initiation of romantic ties on social media. We will discuss prior research and go further into our research questioning focusing on the negative impact of this new kind of romantic relationship by conducting a survey and analyze how people perceive the role of social media in their own romantic life. People have become so used to using social media that a more traditional way of dating is less and less considerable nowadays. Using social media to approach someone has become the new norm, and maybe the reason why we should be more alert and consider the negatives impacts it has on the initiation of romantic relationships.

scholarly journals THE EXCESSIVE USE OF FACEBOOK AND THE ADULT SELF-PRESENTATION IN ROMANIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-192
Author(s):  
Ramona RADUCAN ◽  
Mihaela VADEANU
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Significance Threshold ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Study Population

The purpose of this study is to analyze the association between self-presentation and the excessive use of Facebook social media by adults in Romania. Two hypotheses were formulated to achieve these objectives: (1) There is a statistically significant correlation between the age of Facebook social network users and their self-presentation; (2) There are statistically significant differences in the self-representation of Facebook social network users by gender. The study population is made up of all adults in Romania who use the Facebook platform more than 4 hours each day. The sample consists of 151 people (43 men and 108 women), aged 18 to 72, and the average age being 34.92 years. In order to measure study variables, the Self-Presentation Scale (AC01 Questionnaire) realized by R.D. Lennox and R.N. Wolfe (1984), was used. The quasi-experimental research was conducted in May 2018 by completing online questionnaires via the Facebook platform. The application of questionnaires was done online by creating a Google Drive form. According to the results obtained the negative correlation established between the subjects’ age and the self-presentation doesn’t reach the statistical significance threshold (p = 0,603). Thus, hypothesis H1 is not confirmed. According to the results, the differences observed between men and women don’t reach the statistical significance threshold (p = 0,608), thus hypothesis H2 is not confirmed.

Virtual Orientalism/Imagined Dualism (VO/ID) Expansion

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Aya Kamperis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Product Service ◽  
The Us ◽  
Aesthetic Style ◽  
Post War ◽  
Insight Into

In Virtual Orientalism, Jane Naomi Iwamura extends Edward Said's theory through an analysis of the US post-war visual culture to trace the genealogy of the icon of the East she calls the ‘Oriental Monk'. The aim of the chapter is to explore the appropriation of the notion of Zen, particularly its application and exploitation as an aesthetic ‘style', and the mechanisms behind such phenomena. The chapter extends Iwamura's thesis to elaborate on the function of the Virtual Monk to question the development of its ontology in the contemporary world of neoliberalism and social media to introduce the concept of VO/ID, which has been deployed by capitalist corporations to market Zen as a lifestyle product/service. It offers an insight into the process of identification within the framework of orientalism, that is, the way in which the Self and the Other come into being, and offer Gen as a possible solution to the VO/ID expansion.

scholarly journals Like me (please?): Connecting online self-presentation to pre- and early adolescents’ self-esteem

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2386-2403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneleen Meeus ◽  
Kathleen Beullens ◽  
Steven Eggermont
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Serial Mediation

The aim of the current study was to examine the role of social media in building the self-esteem of younger adolescents. Results from a cross-sectional survey ( N = 725, Mage = 11.61, SD = 1.01) provided support for a serial mediation between online self-presentation and self-esteem through both perceived online popularity and the need for popularity. Specifically, we found that self-presentation on social media was positively related to pre- and early adolescents’ self-esteem, via their perceived online popularity (e.g. receiving “likes”). However, results also revealed a relationship between online popularity and users’ need for popularity, which was in turn negatively associated with self-esteem. Findings indicate that when pre- and early adolescents engage in online self-presentation, they can generate feedback such as likes on social media. Although such positive appraisals are positively associated with their self-esteem, they also appear to provoke an increased dependence on social approval, which is paradoxically related to decreased self-esteem.

scholarly journals Drink, Share, and Comment; Wait, What Did I Just Do? Understanding Online Alcohol-Related Regret Experiences Among Emerging Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 002204262199454
Author(s):  
Femke Geusens ◽  
Ilse Vranken
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
The Self ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
And Coping

This study investigated the causes and coping strategies of regret of sharing alcohol-related content on social media. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among emerging adults who experienced regret of having shared either general alcohol references or drunken references ( n = 29, ages 19–25 years, M = 21.38, SD = 1.60). The most important cause of regret was a disruption of one’s online self-presentation. When delving deeper into the specific causes of online alcohol-related regret and how this content can disrupt the self-presentation, two overarching themes emerged: (a) content-related regret, and (b) audience-related regret. When examining the coping strategies, we found that emerging adults applied different strategies (a) to minimize their regret (e.g., delete the content), and (b) to avoid future regret (e.g., delete social media before going out). Implications for prevention are discussed.

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