The Futurians, Gamergate, and Fandom

2022 ◽  
pp. 234-249
Author(s):  
Julia Crouse Waddell
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Fan Clubs ◽  
Formation Of Groups

From the science fiction fan clubs of the 1930s to the modern gamers, devoted fans have found one another and formed groups bonded over their shared interest. As groups formed, social identities began to emerge, distinguishing ingroups and outgroups. Social identity theory helps to explain the formation of groups as well as inevitable competition over resources and power. As technology became more sophisticated, fans were able to communicate with greater ease facilitating ingroup social identification. The inherent properties of video games reinforce both the cooperation among ingroup members as well as the rivalry with outgroups. Understanding the mechanisms within video games as well as the affordances of CMC and social media help to explain the group dynamics that support the Gamergate social identity.

The Futurians, Gamergate, and Fandom

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-302
Author(s):  
Julia Crouse Waddell
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Fan Clubs ◽  
Formation Of Groups

From the science fiction fan clubs of the 1930s to the modern gamers, devoted fans have found one another and formed groups bonded over their shared interest. As groups formed, social identities began to emerge, distinguishing ingroups and outgroups. Social identity theory helps to explain the formation of groups as well as inevitable competition over resources and power. As technology became more sophisticated, fans were able to communicate with greater ease facilitating ingroup social identification. The inherent properties of video games reinforce both the cooperation among ingroup members as well as the rivalry with outgroups. Understanding the mechanisms within video games as well as the affordances of CMC and social media help to explain the group dynamics that support the Gamergate social identity.

Naive, connected, and counselor tween girl identity groups: Consumption practices and social identity constructions within consumer culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110160
Author(s):  
Tiziana Brenner Beauchamp Weber ◽  
Eliane C. Francisco Maffezzolli
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Consumer Identity ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Identity Groups

This research identifies the relationship between consumption practices and the construction of social identity among tweens in a Brazilian context. Using consumer culture theory and social identity theory, we employed 80 h of observation, 9 interviews, and projective techniques with fifteen girls. Three social identity groups were acknowledged: naive, connected, and counselors. These groups revealed different identity projects, such as the integration and maintenance within the social group of current belonging, the access to the social group with the greater distinctions, the generation of differentiable and positive distinctions (both intra- and intergroups), and the expression and consolidation of identity and its respective consumption practices. This research contributes to the consumption literature that relates to consumer identity projects. The findings reveal a current resignification of girlhood and exposes tweens’ consumption practices as a direct mechanism of the expression and construction of their social identities. These are mechanisms of social identity construction as mediated by group relations through the processes of access, maintenance, integration, differentiation, and distinction.

scholarly journals The role of integrated offline/online social activity and social identification in Facebook citizenship behaviour formation

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeeshan Ahmed Bhatti ◽  
Ghulam Ali Arain ◽  
Hina Mahboob Yasin ◽  
Muhammad Asif Khan ◽  
Muhammad Shakaib Akram
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Activity Integration

PurposeDrawing on social identity theory and prosocial behaviour research, this study explores how people's integration of their offline and online social activities through Facebook cultivates their Facebook citizenship behaviour (FCB). It also offers further insight into the underlying mechanism of offline and online social activity integration - FCB relation by investigating people's social identification with their offline and online social groups as possible mediators.Design/methodology/approachBased on social identity theory (SIT) literature, community citizenship behaviour and offline-online social activity integration through Facebook, we developed a conceptual model, which was empirically tested using data from 308 Facebook usersFindingsThe results confirm that the participants' offline-online social activity integration via Facebook is positively linked to their FCB. Further, the integration of offline and online social activity through Facebook positively affects how a person identifies with their offline and online social groups, which in turn causes them to display FCB. In addition, offline/online social identification mediates the integration – FCB relation.Practical implicationsIn practice, it is interesting to see people's tendency towards altruistic behaviours within groups they like to associate themselves with. Those who share their Facebook network with their offline friends can use such network to seek help and support.Originality/valueFrom a theoretical perspective, unlike past research, this study examines how individuals' offline-online social activity integration via Facebook helps them associate with groups. In addition, this study investigates social identification from an offline and online perspective.

L'identité Wallonne saisie par l'enquête : Une approche constructiviste de l'identité collective

Res Publica ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 343-359
Author(s):  
Marc Jacquemain ◽  
René Doutrelepont ◽  
Michel Vandekeere
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Level

At first view, the methodology of survey research may seem rather unsuitable to the study of such "holistic" phenomena as collective and social identities.  That difficulty vanishes - at least partly - as soon as we consider social identity as the link between the individual and his belongings, as does the "social identity theory", developed from the work of Taffel and Turner.  From there on, survey research may prove to be a useful device to cope with some main characteristics of social identity: mainly its variability among groups and classes within a same society and its particular sensitivity to socio-political contexts.  Survey research, combined with the social identity theory may help to test historical assumptions at a macro-social level. It may also give some ''flesh" and some additional realism to the micro-theories of social behaviour, which are too often limited by their conception of a strictly rational and interested agent.

Invisible Social Identity Exercise

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-334
Author(s):  
Kathleen B. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Diversity Courses ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
The Invisible

Diversity courses cover a variety of relevant topics, but it is difficult to convey the dilemmas those with stigmatized, invisible social identities may encounter in the workplace. This exercise attempts to situate students in the perspective of both the person with the invisible identity and those who may unintentionally place that person in a difficult situation. Five role-plays with scenarios that reflect real-world situations allow students to heighten their sensitivity and understanding in workplace situations that may involve invisible social identities. The learning builds on the students’ lived experience and links stigma and invisible social identity theory to their workplace environment.

scholarly journals Amalgamation as a Strengthening Ethic

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-341
Author(s):  
Joshua Fernando ◽  
Meta Sya ◽  
Rustono Farady Marta
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Primary Group ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The West ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Phenomenological Studies

Mixed Marriage or Amalgamation is a unique reality in the development of culture in Indonesia. In the midst of ethnic diversity in Indonesia, it is possible for amalgamation to occur, so that understanding one another is a condition for harmony. This study aims to discover how individuals' social identities are formed in the primary group, that is in families who do amalgamation and how are individuals' social identity in amalgamation pairs. This study uses a qualitative exploratory research method with phenomenological studies from the perspective of Tajfel & Turner's Social Identity theory. The results of this study are the symbols of Tong Ngin Fan Ngin Jit Jong in Bangka community as the principle of inter-ethnic equality of the individual's social identity in mixed marriages, while the act of losing personal identity as a member of one ethnic group (depersonalization) is occurred in the West Kalimantan due to conflict background ethnicity past.

Social identification processes, group dynamics and the behaviour of combatants

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (870) ◽  
pp. 259-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Castano ◽  
Bernhard Leidner ◽  
Patrycja Slawuta
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Identification Processes

AbstractIn this contribution, respect for international humanitarian law among combatants is considered from a social psychological perspective. According to this perspective, the social identities derived by individuals from their membership of social groups provide norms and values used by the individual to interpret events, form opinions and decide upon a course of action. We argue that group identities are particularly salient in combat situations, and that they have a profound influence on combatants' decisions to respect or violate international humanitarian law.

Intersectional Understandings of Inequality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aída Hurtado
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
Economic Inequalities ◽  
Borderlands Theory

To address the increase in social and economic inequalities requires complex paradigms that take into account multiple sources of oppression. This chapter proposes the concept of intersectionality elaborated through social identity theory and borderlands theory as a potential avenue for research and policy to speak to and solve multiple sources of disadvantage. The multiple sources of inequality produce intersectional identities as embodied in the social identities constituted by the master statuses of sexuality, gender, class, race, ethnicity, and physical ableness. By applying intersectionality to inequality one can examine both intersections of disadvantage (e.g., being poor and of Color) or intersections of both of disadvantage and privilege (e.g., being male and of Color). Intersectionality also permits the study of privilege when advantaged social identities are problematized. I conclude with reviewing the possible ways of empirically studying intersectionality and the advantages in applying it to the understanding of social and economic inequalities.

scholarly journals Young Somalis’ social identity in Sweden and Britain: The interplay of group dynamics, socio-political environments, and transnational ties in social identification processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Scuzzarello ◽  
Benny Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Identification Processes

AbstractIn this article, we aim to contribute to the literature on social identification among migrants and minorities by offering a theoretical framework that accounts for the interplay of socio-psychological factors, local and transnational group dynamics, and the socio-political environment in which migrants live. This approach enables us to analyse not only the political significance of identity, but also the psychology of identity formation. Drawing upon qualitative data, we analyse how young Somalis (N = 43) living in the municipalities of Malmö (Sweden) and Ealing (United Kingdom) construct and negotiate their ethnic social identities in relation to: Somali elders living in the same city; Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora; and the British/Swedish majority society. We show that, to secure a positive self-identity vis-à-vis these referent groups, young Somalis engage in psychological strategies of separation; social competition; and social creativity. The socio-political environment in which they are embedded influences which strategy they adopt.

scholarly journals DINAMIKA PEMBAURAN IDENTITAS TIONGHOA MUSLIM DI PALEMBANG

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Rohim Pahrozi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
The Subject

 The aim of this research is to reveal the ethnic identity of Tionghoa Moslem in Palembang. An important theme related to Chinese ethnic in keeping their Chinese identity amid the plurality of Indonesian society and culture in everyday life in Palembang will be revealed. Is there a conflict in the majority Muslim community, where this group has dual identity, China and moslem. Social identity theory is chosen as a theoretical tool to understand the problem of this research. This research was conducted in Palembang by involving several samples of research subjects from moslem of Chinese Totok to moslem of Chinese descent. This research is a qualitative research by using symbolic interactionist approach. This approach focuses on the personal aspects of the subject of research aimed to identifying the emerging social dynamics associated with ethnic Chinese that living in Palembang in maintaining their social identity while interacting with other social identities. Determination of informants using the principle of snowball. Technique of collecting data through interview, observation and documentation, and analyzed by using descriptive qualitative. 

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