"I pretended to be a boy on the Internet": Navigating affordances and constraints of social networking sites and search engines for LGBTQ+ identity work

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Kitzie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identity Expression

In this multi-platform study, I analyze interviews with 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals in the United States (U.S.) to demonstrate how social networking sites (SNS) and search engines afford and constrain their identity work. Data analysis identifies three key affordances and constraints for how participants create, negotiate, and sustain their LGBTQ+ identities: identity expression, visibility, and anonymity. I explore each using a tripartite analytical frame of stigma, tactics, and authenticity. Findings describe how participants navigate hetero- and gender-normative discourses encoded into SNS and search engines to affirm their LGBTQ+ identities. Designers can use these results to create platforms inclusive of LGBTQ+ identities that afford, rather than constrain, these navigations.

scholarly journals Think before you post... Your future employer may be watching

2014 ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Elliott Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Footprint ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Purdue University

The explosion of social networking sites in recent years has given many Kim Kardashian wannabes an opportunity to display and glamorise their supposed activities and achievements. However, it has also unwittingly given employers an opportunity to pry into the personal (and at times very personal) affairs of their prospective employees through the practice of cyber-vetting. Social media users should take note. They should think very carefully before they post, tweet or upload a photograph as their future employer may be watching and to paraphrase US Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, removing something from the Internet is about as easy as removing urine from a swimming pool! Dr Brenda Berkelaar of Purdue University, who completed a PhD on cyber-vetting, described the practice as: “when organizations use information from search engines or social networking communities to evaluate job candidates.” In its simplest form, cyber-vetting is the examination by employers of the digital footprint ...

scholarly journals Adolescents’ Cyber Victimization: The Influence of Technologies, Gender, and Gender Stereotype Traits

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1293
Author(s):  
Michelle F. Wright ◽  
Sebastian Wachs
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
Relational Victimization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cyber Victimization ◽  
And Gender

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of gender and gender stereotype traits (masculinity, femininity) in cyber victimization behaviors (cyber relational victimization, cyber verbal victimization, hacking) through different technologies (mobile phones, gaming consoles, social networking sites). There were 456 8th graders (226 females; M age = 13.66, SD = 0.41) from two midwestern middle schools in the United States included in this study. They completed questionnaires on their endorsement of masculine and feminine traits, and self-reported cyber victimization through different technologies. The findings revealed main effects of types of cyber victimization for boys and of technology for girls. In particular, boys with feminine traits experienced the most victimization by cyber verbal aggression, cyber relational aggression, and hacking when compared to the other groups of boys. Girls with feminine traits experienced the most cyber victimization through social networking sites, gaming consoles, and mobile phones in comparison to the other groups of girls. For girls with feminine traits, they reported more cyber relational victimization and cyber verbal victimization through mobile phones and social networking sites, as well as more hacking via social networking sites. Such findings underscore the importance of considering gender stereotype traits, types of victimization, and technologies when examining cyber victimization.

From Community to Commodity: The Ethics of Pharma-Funded Social Networking Sites for Physicians

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Snow Landa ◽  
Carl Elliott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Press Release ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Start Up

In September 2006, a small start-up company in Cambridge, MA called Sermo, Inc., launched a social networking site with an unusual twist: only physicians practicing medicine in the United States would be allowed to participate. Sermo, which means “conversation” in Latin, marketed its website as an online community exclusively for doctors that would allow them to talk openly (and anonymously) about a range of topics, from challenging and unusual medical cases to the relative merits of one treatment versus another. “Sermo enables the private and instant exchange of knowledge among MDs,” the company announced in its first press release. Even better, participation was free and the site carried no advertising.

News Internalizing and Externalizing

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihyang Choi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
News Sharing ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

The present study sheds light on the changing patterns of news experiences by defining it as news sharing. The study attempted to explicate the concept of news sharing by identifying the subdimensions of it in the context of online social networking sites (SNSs). Findings showed that news sharing is comprised of two distinctive behaviors: news internalizing (by those who read news) and externalizing (by those who offer news to others). Furthermore, news internalizing and externalizing have two subdimensions, respectively: browsing and personalizing for internalizing, and recontextualizing and endorsing for externalizing. Data were collected through a national survey of adults in the United States.

Online Social Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Melton ◽  
Robert Miller ◽  
Michelle Salmona
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Authority Figures

Previous research has shown that many college students in the United States post content to social networking sites that they know would be considered inappropriate by employers and other authority figures. However, the phenomenon has not been extensively studied in cross-cultural context. To address this knowledge gap, a survey of college students in Australia, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States was conducted. The study found a universal tendency among the four groups: students knew the content they were posting would be considered inappropriate by employers and other authority figures, but they chose to post it anyway. The article also reports on differences in the way this tendency was manifested and on related aspects of social networking across cultures, including decisions about privacy and information disclosure.

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