Looking for you: An analysis of video blogs

First Monday ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Griffith ◽  
Zizi Papacharissi
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Video Blogging ◽  
Identity Expression

Blogs are a form of self-presentation on the Internet and variations like video blogs (vlogs) have expanded with the support of sites like YouTube. This study examines the culture of video blogging --- its rhythm, language, and communication style. Utilizing Goffman's (1959) notions on the presentation of self as dramaturgical, multi-stage and multi-audience processes, this textual analysis of ten personal vlogs deconstructs the structure of each site, text, links, as well as the videos and their comments to identify dominant modes of communication. Three dominant themes emerge, reflecting employment of vlogs as diaries, media for identity expression, and a means to indulge in narcissism. Vloggers emphasize one or more of these modes in creating their online performances.

scholarly journals VIDEO BLOGGING (VLOGGING) SEBAGAI BENTUK PRESENTASI DIRI

Jurnal Signal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aghnia Dian Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Life Purpose ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Expectation ◽  
Video Blogging ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstrak. Perkembangan media sosial sampai pada dimana kehidupan seseorang sengaja direkam dan diunggah agar menjadi sumber informasi dan hiburan untuk publik yaitu dikenal dengan istilah vlogging yang identik dengan  menggunakan Youtube. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini kualitatif dengan studi deskriptif. Penelitian ini menemukan hasil bahwa Youtube digunakan oleh seorang vlogger sebagai bentuk presentasi diri untuk membentuk citra positif dan ekspetasi publik, hal demikian dilakukan oleh Gita Savitri seorang vlogger muda yang sedang menempuh pendidikan sekaligus tinggal di Jerman. Ia konsisten membuat vlog selama 9 tahun dengan konten daily activity, Beropini, PagiPagi, Tentang Jerman, Covers (music), Hijab Review, Q&A, dan Travel Vlog. Kata Kunci: Vlogging, Youtube, Presentasi Diri  Abstract. The development of social media comes to where one's life purpose is recorded and uploaded in order to be a source of information and entertainment to the public which is known by the term vlogging identical to using Youtube. Methods used in this research is a descriptive study with qualitative. The study found results that Youtube vlogger as used by a form of presentation of self to form positive image and public expectation against him, such is done by Gita Savitri a vlogger young travels education while living in Germany who consistently make a vlog for 9 years with the content of the daily activity, Opined, PagiPagi, Live in Germany, Covers (music), Hijab Review, Q&A, and Travel Vlog. Keywords: Vlogging, Youtube, Self Presentation

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.

Older and Younger Job Seekers' Impression Management on LinkedIn

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Franciska Krings ◽  
Irina Gioaba ◽  
Michèle Kaufmann ◽  
Sabine Sczesny ◽  
Leslie Zebrowitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Research Show

Abstract. The use of social networking sites such as LinkedIn in recruitment is ubiquitous. This practice may hold risks for older job seekers. Not having grown up using the internet and having learned how to use social media only in middle adulthood may render them less versed in online self-presentation than younger job seekers. Results of this research show some differences and many similarities between younger and older job seekers' impression management on their LinkedIn profiles. Nevertheless, independent of their impression management efforts, older job seekers received fewer job offers than younger job seekers. Only using a profile photo with a younger appearance reduced this bias. Implications for the role of job seeker age in online impression management and recruitment are discussed.

scholarly journals From Beatlemania to Bieber Fever: The Evolution of Celebrity/Fan Interactions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haley Coppins
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Way

Celebrities and fans have been researched by scholars throughout the years, with differing opinions regarding their characteristics and relationships. Prior to the development of the internet, fans were characterized by scholars as deranged, hysterical and passive. Their relationships with celebrities were seen as exclusively one-sided and parasocial. Conversely, since the development of the internet fans have been characterized more favourably as active participants. In this paper, I perform a textual analysis of Twitter conversations between bands/artists and fans in an attempt to better understand if and how celebrity-fan interactions have changed from early scholarly interpretations. I argue that Twitter is changing celebrity-fan interactions, not only by encouraging reciprocal interactions but also by enabling more personal, intimate conversations. Twitter is allowing bands and fans to interact in a number of different ways that simultaneously build relationships and serve commercial functions such as promotion. Fans have become more actively involved in content production and powerful in influencing the way bands promote themselves. Used properly, Twitter can be a valuable tool for bands and artists to market themselves.

scholarly journals Social Exhibitionism on the Internet as a New Risky Behaviour Demonstrated by Polish Youth

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Borzucka-Sitkiewicz ◽  
Karina Leksy
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Unlimited Access ◽  
Upper Secondary Schools

The technological progress and unlimited access to media create new possibilities of self-presentation in the public domain nowadays, especially for the young generation. The article presents a part of a broader research project which was aimed at defining the characteristics of behaviors shown in cyberspace by Polish students of upper-secondary schools and also at determining potential social and health consequences of such behaviors. The chosen fragment of the study mainly focuses on those actions that were considered as a sign of social exhibitionism on the Internet, such as uploading photos and videos, sharing private information about oneself and informing about current activity. The research was conducted in accordance with a quantity paradigm. It was of diagnostic and verification nature and a method of diagnostic survey with the use of questionnaires was applied.

scholarly journals Blogging Identity: How L2 Learners Express Themselves

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Kiyomi FUJII
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Self Image ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Identity Expression

This study discusses language learning and identity, particularly pertaining to intermediate-advanced-level Japanese-language learners, focusing on their target language and identity expression through their interactions with peers and Japanese college students. When learners of Japanese express their identities while interacting with others in their target language, they feel a gap between the self-image they want to present, and the image they are capable of presenting in Japanese (Siegal, 1994, 1995, 1996). Along with adjusting their L1 and L2 usage depending on their interlocutor (Kurata 2007), learners also use different sentence-ending styles depending on the role they want to assume (Cook 2008). By conducting a case study, the present inquiry attempts to address how learners of Japanese express their identities through blog conversations, focusing on their language choice and expressions. Results suggest that participants use the formal endings for self-presentation and projection of their student and classmate identity. However, when expressing emotion some students preferred informal endings, or sentence-final particles.

scholarly journals THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY ETHER: A CORPUS ANALYSIS OF STUDENT SELF-TELLINGS IN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSES

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Meskill ◽  
Gulnara Sadykova
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Academic Context

This study examines the patterns and substance of student self introductions in nine fully online graduate courses in education. A composite of social identity frameworks with an emphasis on language as the tool for self-presentation is first developed to guide the analysis and interpretation of these data. In particular Sfard and Prusack’s operationalization of the telling of identity, along with Bruner’s construct of turning points in self-tellings are discussed and employed as analytic lenses. The question of how, in a tightly defined social/academic context, adults use written language to present themselves to others is taken up through content analysis supported by linguistic concordancing. Two hundred twenty-three “Meet Your Classmates” entries are examined for their form and content. Entries composed by preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and doctoral students reveal differences regarding academic and professional identity-telling with the tenacity of institutionally situating and situated forces prevailing.

scholarly journals Jak politycy mówią o równouprawnieniu płci? Debata nad projektem ustawy o równym statusie kobiet i mężczyzn

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Equal Status ◽  
Basic Mode ◽  
Equality Rights ◽  
And Gender

The main purpose of the article is to analyse the language and argumentation used by Polish politicians in debates on equality and gender equality rights. The material analysed in the article includes shorthand records gathered in the internet archives of the Sejm and the Senate during legislative works on the bill on the equal status of men and women. The conclusion, drawn after the analysis, supports the initial theses of the authors (Marek Czyżewski, Sergiusz Kowalski, Andrzej Piotrowski), who claimed that the basic “mode of public discourse” in Poland is the so-called “ritual chaos”, which manifests a lack of will of agreement and ostentatious self-presentation. During the debate the MPs defined the key words such as “equality” and “parity” in various manner, they marginalised the problem of discrimination of sexes and showed a lack of professionalism in their presentations. It was surprising to see one of the strongest voices against the bill presented by the representative of the “Platforma Obywatelska”, which normally claims liberalism and equality. Meanwhile, the most rational and balanced views and arguments for equality of rights for women were presented by a representative of the “Samoobrona”.

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