Studentrs Privacy and Self Presentation in Social Networking Site

We administer a survey to evaluate accounting and other business students’ perceptions and usage of the social networking site LinkedIn. The participants are students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), who are underrepresented groups. Our research examines how LinkedIn shapes their social identity and establishes their self-presentation in a world of social networking. It also examines how students’ perceptions of LinkedIn benefit their future career development as well as interactive learning. The results of the survey reveal that LinkedIn is an invaluable social media tool for college students to present their social identity, network with professionals as a helpful source of career and job information. However, compared with business students, accounting students put less trust in the information obtained via professional communities on LinkedIn. Accounting students agree that LinkedIn is more distracting than helpful to students for academic work. Our study has strong implications for accounting students and other business students, as well as educators in HBCU settings.

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Self-determination Affects the Use of Self-presentation Strategies On Social Networking Sites

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.7758 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Zhichao Cheng ◽

Yang Pan ◽

Yuan Ni

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Motivational Orientation ◽

Self Determination ◽

Self Report ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Causality Orientations ◽

Age Range

We examined how orientation of self-determination affects the use of online self-presentation strategies among social networking site users. Participants were 374 young adult WeChat users (age range = 18–22 years; 166 men, 208 women) who completed the self-report measures of the General Causality Orientations Scale and the Online Interpersonal Communication Strategies Scale. The results indicated that an autonomy orientation of self-determination was positively related to the use of automatic ingratiation strategies; a controlled orientation of self-determination was the most active motivational orientation and was related to the use of the online self-presentation strategies of ingratiation, self-promotion, exemplification, and supplication; and an impersonal orientation of self-determination was primarily associated with use of the supplication strategy of self-presentation. These novel insights regarding self-determination could help to explain individual differences in online self-presentation.

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‘Good Morning Fitfam’: Top posts, hashtags and gender display on Instagram

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444818777514 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (12) ◽

pp. 4553-4570 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Stephanie Alice Baker ◽

Michael James Walsh

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Analytic Framework ◽

Gender Identities ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Good Morning ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Display

Social networking sites are important platforms for visual self-presentation online. This article investigates how content producers present their gender identities on the social networking site, Instagram. We draw upon and develop Goffman’s analytic framework to understand the self-presentation techniques and styles users employ online. Conducting a visual content analysis of clean eating–related top posts, we examine how users deploy clean eating hashtags and how the architecture of Instagram constrains and enables certain identities around shared lifestyles and commercial interests. Our findings reveal the symbolic significance of hashtags for group membership and the degree to which gender identities on Instagram are configured around platform interfaces.

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The hidden side of news diffusion: Understanding online news sharing as an interpersonal behavior

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444818772847 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (11) ◽

pp. 4346-4365 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jennifer Ihm ◽

Eun-mee Kim

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Online News ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Interpersonal Behavior ◽

Relational Communication ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Instant Messenger ◽

Media Environments ◽

News Sharing ◽

News Online

Unlike previous approaches to online news sharing behaviors dealing with the dissemination of information to broader audiences, this article interprets that behavior as an act of relational communication. Drawing from surveys of 400 online news users, we examine how they manage their self-presentation and account for their audience’s characteristics differently when they engage in online news sharing activities on mobile instant messenger (MIM) and social networking site (SNS). Our findings suggest that individuals who are highly motivated by self-presentation share news online more than others. Individuals also target different audiences, depending on their media environments. Specifically, SNS users are more cautious about their audiences’ connections with other users. The implications are that news sharing behaviors are a type of communication used for forming relationships and managing impressions beyond informational purposes, based on active individuals’ strategic considerations of their audiences’ characteristics.

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

Normas ◽

10.7203/normas.v8i1.13432 ◽

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.

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The Facebook Me

Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3187-7.ch010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 176-193

Author(s):

Heng Zhang ◽

Robert Andrew Dunn

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Gender Role ◽

Social Networking ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Media Presentation

For a better understanding of social networking site usage, the present study examines the influence of gender, personality, and self-esteem on social media presentation. The researchers found that extroverted women posted more Facebook pictures than extroverted men did. Neuroticism was related to self-presentation, and agreeableness is related to Facebook friends. Lower self-esteem was related to more self-presentation on Facebook. Women were more likely to post gender role expressions than men were. And higher levels of neuroticism were related to greater gender role expressions.

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Personality perception based on LinkedIn profiles

Journal of Managerial Psychology ◽

10.1108/jmp-07-2016-0220 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (6) ◽

pp. 418-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Niels van de Ven ◽

Aniek Bogaert ◽

Alec Serlie ◽

Mark J. Brandt ◽

Jaap J.A. Denissen

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Work Experience ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Recruitment Process ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Content Type ◽

Personality Perception ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose Job-related social networking websites (e.g. LinkedIn) are often used in the recruitment process because the profiles contain valuable information such as education level and work experience. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether people can accurately infer a profile owner’s self-rated personality traits based on the profile on a job-related social networking site. Design/methodology/approach In two studies, raters inferred personality traits (the Big Five and self-presentation) from LinkedIn profiles (total n=275). The authors related those inferences to self-rated personality by the profile owner to test if the inferences were accurate. Findings Using information gained from a LinkedIn profile allowed for better inferences of extraversion and self-presentation of the profile owner (r’s of 0.24-0.29). Practical implications When using a LinkedIn profile to estimate trait extraversion or self-presentation, one becomes 1.5 times as likely to actually select the person with higher trait extraversion compared to the person with lower trait extraversion. Originality/value Although prior research tested whether profiles of social networking sites (such as Facebook) can be used to accurately infer self-rated personality, this was not yet tested for job-related social networking sites (such as LinkedIn). The results indicate that profiles at job-related social networks, in spite of containing only relatively standardized information, “leak” information about the owner’s personality.

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Facebook and dramauthentic identity: A post-Goffmanian theory of identity performance on SNS

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v19i4.4858 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D. E. Wittkower

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Common Denominator ◽

Identity Performance ◽

Online Identity ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Line Life ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Computer Mediated Communications

Early and persistent scholarly concerns with online identity emphasized the ways that computer–mediated communications have allowed new, inventive, and creative presentations of self, and the lack of connection between online identity and the facts of off–line life. After the ascendency and following ubiquity of Facebook, we find our online lives transformed. We have not only seen online identity reconnected to off–line life, but we have seen, through the particular structures of social networking sites, our online lives subjected to newfound pressures to unify self–presentations from various constitutive communities; pressures different from and in some ways greater than those of off–line life. After describing identity in computer–mediated communications prior to Facebook, and investigating the kinds of changed conditions brought about in social networking sites, I put forth a dramauthentic model of post–Facebook online identity. This model is comprised of three methods of exposure through multiply anchored self–presentation (mixed, agonistic, and lowest–common–denominator) and four strategies of interaction (spectacular, untidy, distributed, and minimized), each of which are employed non–exclusively and at different moments by most social networking site users.

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