My Desired Self, Avatar

Social Networking Site ◽

Self Concept ◽

Experimental Setting ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Major Question ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

In computer-mediated communication (CMC) environments, users utilize their avatars as a communication channel to interact and connect with others, and they choose and create them accordingly to represent their self. As such, several major question areas arise: 1) As an extension of identity, how does a user customize his/her avatar? How is the avatar's appearance related to the avatar creator's self-concept? 2) How does avatar creation influence the avatar creator's psychological and behavioral consequences? To answer these questions, the current study leveraged a Korean social networking site, which currently provides avatars called “Minimis,” in a randomized experimental setting. This study found that the more the participants perceived their avatars to look like their desired selves, the more likely they evaluated their avatars as being attractive, credible, confident, cool, capable, and persuasive, but failed to find a significant relationship between avatar users' perceptions toward self-created avatars and their attitudes toward the social network site or ads.. The limitations and implications will be discussed.

“Netlect” in Albanian: The Social Network Variety

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.2478/mjss-2018-0165 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 101-105

Author(s):

Rrahman Paçarizi

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Instant Messaging ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Language Variety ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Abstract Instant messaging, texting, or even Computer Mediated Communication are the terms used to refer to communication in social networks. These terms are not the most appropriate ones because the technology and platforms of this way of communication have evolved rapidly. Since this communication is widespread, there is a need to have a much more standardized communication in terms of the language variety used for it. Having in mind various principles of socio cognitive approach in terminology, the study aimed to build a new appropriate term in this regard. Having in mind all the circumstances and the scale of standardization of this way of communication, I think that the best term that fits it is “Netlect”. This is done in order to include, using the same word, the name of the platform where this communication is being developed (net) and the paradigm for linguistic variety (lect), as in socio+lect, dia+lect etc. The case of Albanian and other languages goes in favour of this term because we are talking about “a language variety that never existed before”, as Ferrara, Brunner, and Whittemore stated earlier in 1991.

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 ◽

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.

Word Creation in Computer-Mediated Communication. Occasionalisms (False-Names) and Neologisms (Study based on examples on the social network "Facebook")

Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Representation, Digitalization ◽

10.26615/issn.2367-8038.2021_2_019 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 208-236

Author(s):

Mariyan Petrov ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

The report examines the emergence, structuring and spread of occasionalisms (false names) in computer-mediated communication and their transformation into neologisms. When, how, and under what conditions do nonce words turn into neologisms? Keywords: Occasionalisms; False-Names; Neologisms; Computer-Mediated Communication

Identity, Community, and Technology: Reflections on the Facebook Group Inuit Hunting Stories of the Day

Études/Inuit/Studies ◽

10.7202/1055439ar ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 207-224

Author(s):

Alexander Castleton

Keyword(s):

Cultural Practices ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

The Social ◽

Meaningful Engagement ◽

Central Argument ◽

Political Economic ◽

The Relationship

In this article I reflect on a particular Inuit use of the social networking site Facebook: the group called Inuit Hunting Stories of the Day. I focus on two main issues. First, I discuss the logic behind current technologies as conceptualized by Albert Borgmann (e.g., 1984), who states that rather than being neutral tools, modern devices foster a particular “taking-up” with the world that leads to disengagement from community and meaningful practices. Arguing against this view, I discuss how Inuit Hunting Stories of the Day is an example of how the internet and Facebook are appropriated and provide meaningful engagement. Second, I follow anthropologist Claudio Aporta’s (2013) notion of ecology of technology and argue that the relationship between technology and Inuit has to be understood within an ecological framework that encompasses the broader context of political, economic, and social change, which are intertwined with the use, appropriation, adoption, and adaptation of technology. Drawing from the ecology of technology perspective, it is my central argument that technology and computer-mediated communication bring proximity to cultural practices, activities, and the land rather than provoking distance and alienation from reality, as commonly expressed in dystopian notions.

The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants

Computers in Human Behavior Reports ◽

10.1016/j.chbr.2020.100016 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 100016

Author(s):

Sarah Gambo ◽

Bahire Ofe Özad

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Demographic Trends ◽

Computer Mediated

Social networks and online community

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561803.013.0009 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Caroline Haythornthwaite

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Online Community ◽

Land Resources ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Face To Face ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

The Social ◽

Social Network Approach ◽

Interpersonal Ties

The very notion of community in an online context can begin a hot debate. Those who would keep the term ‘community’ for the imagined ideal of cooperation and joint sharing of land, resources, and goals ask: How can community exist without physical co-location and a geographic touchstone? How can the leanness of computer-mediated communication support the richness inherent in a community? This article revisits the debate about community and online community, and offers a means of conceptualizing and investigating online community using a social network perspective that frees it from its former geographical constraints. It begins with a look at the challenges to community that have fed into arguments against online community, and with a section on the discovery of community online. The article then addresses the case for a network view of community, starting with how the social network approach has been applied to offline communities and how this lays the groundwork for unbundling community from face-to-face interaction and geographic co-location. Following a brief section on the basics of social-network terminology, it returns to the main topic of community, with a focus on the network-level aspects of community, showing how patterns of interpersonal ties can build a network with outcomes greater than the sum of the pairwise connections. The final sections explore variants on the theme of community, first by revisiting the online and offline dichotomy and addressing the advantages, and indeed the inevitability, of considering community from both online and offline sides.

Face to Facebook: Social media and the learning and teaching potential of symmetrical, sychronous communication

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice ◽

10.53761/1.10.1.6 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 68-82

Author(s):

George VanDoorn ◽

◽

Antoinette A. Eklund ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Networking ◽

Specific Aspect ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Face To Face ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Student Reactions

Social networking offers teachers and learners exciting opportunities to communicate. Web 2.0 and its synchronous communications platforms provide new avenues for teachers to deliver curriculum and facilitate learning. Further, they provide new avenues for students to engage and intensify their own learning. Being able to chat in real-time with a teacher, usually via face-to-face discussions, is something that many students studying in on-campus (or day) mode take for granted, and is something that distance or off-campus students are generally unable to experience. In the evolving, flexible-learning tertiary environment, viable and effective computer mediated communication (CMC) alternatives to face-to-face teaching need to be explored. These alternatives will only work if they prove useful to students. This article considers student reactions to social media as a teaching tool, probing its benefits and limitations. Over the course of a semester, third year on- and off-campus students communicated with an academic, outside lecture times, via the social networking site facebook®. Students were allowed to ask any questions they had that related to the unit. At the end of the semester students were provided with a 10-item questionnaire asking them to evaluate their experience. This study looked at a specific aspect of social networking — synchronous text-based chat — and the students’ perceptions of its usefulness for their learning.

Social Distance Increases Perceived Physical Distance

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550617707017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 372-380 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andrea Stevenson Won ◽

Ketaki Shriram ◽

Diana I. Tamir

Keyword(s):

Social Distance ◽

Physical Distance ◽

Spatial Distance ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Social Closeness ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Proximity, or spatial closeness, can generate social closeness—the closer people are together, the more they interact, affiliate, and befriend one another. Mediated communication allows people to bridge spatial distance and can increase social closeness between conversational partners, even when they are separated by distance. However, mediated communication may not always make people feel closer together. Here, we test a hypothesis derived from construal theory, about one way in which mediated communication might increase spatial distance, by imposing social distance between two texting partners. In three studies, the social distance generated by a text conversation correlated with estimates of spatial distance. Conversations designed to generate social distance increased estimates of spatial distance. We discuss this relationship in light of the rise in computer-mediated communication.

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

Internet and Technology Addiction ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8900-6.ch007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 98-113

Author(s):

Samantha Stinson ◽

Debora Jeske

Keyword(s):

Social Presence ◽

Online Dating ◽

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.