Findings suggest that college students utilize myspace for identity exploration, engaging in social comparison and expressing. Online selfpresentation on facebook takes place primarily through profiles where users create their own identity and visually display. Within the cultural context of myspace, this study explores the ways emerging adults experience social networking. Characteristics of internet communication may affect gender self presentation. Examining gender differences in selfpresentation on social. Gender differences in social portraits reflected in.
Self presentation and gender on myspace journal of applied developmental psychology, vol. Also, malefemale myspace differences in selfpresentation parallel, and possibly. Does the online display of an impossible physical reality e. I think myspace and the internet in general makes things more free and like. Pdf selfpresentation and gender on myspace researchgate. More research is needed to explore the implications of this type of self presentation and how women construct online identities. Despite the common perception that online spaces are environments where self presentation is creatively modifiable, free from the limitations imposed in f2f interaction by time, space, and physicality, our findings largely mirror previous findings of gender and race differences in f2f behavior and interpersonal distance. The construction of the virtual self on myspace salimkhan. Through focus group methodology, the role of virtual peer interaction in the development of personal, social, and gender identities was investigated. In addition, each subject indicated 1 how self flattering they perceived such. In the present article, we take a sociohistorical approach to the development of self presentation as a marker of identity and examine how the tool of an online social networking site, myspace, is transforming the human activity of constructing personal, social, and gender identities.
Findings suggest that college students utilize myspace for identity exploration, engaging in social comparison and. Constructing the self through the photo selection visual. One hundred eightyfive college students participated by filling out an anonymous questionnaire that asked about their disclosure of 55 topics to each of four friends. Abstract within the cultural context of myspace, this study explores the ways emerging adults experience social networking. Sns, such as facebook or myspace, offer various features such as profile pictures, groups, and virtual bulletin. It has been accepted for inclusion in masters theses by an authorized administrator of sjsu scholarworks. Pdf selfpresentation and gender on myspace adriana manago. This thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the masters theses and graduate research at sjsu scholarworks.
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Selfpresentation and gender on myspace, journal of applied. Social networking sites are transforming the ways they do so as they become more widely used and replace facetoface interactions with online exchanges boyd. The following sections describe teenagers social media use, profile construction, visual and textual self presentation, profile visibility, truthfulness, and other facets of selfpresentation in social media sites in relation to normative gender. There is an opportunity to examine how women use newer social media to present themselves via self portraits and other self promoting images. Gender differences exist in how the face is presented in relation to the body in. This study examines the role of self flattery in the disclosure of young adults to their best and less close, same and crosssex friends. Race, gender, and selfpresentation in teen profile. The impression management of women and men may be influenced by. Selfpresentation and gender on myspace sciencedirect. Selfpresentation and gender on myspace semantic scholar. Findings suggest that teens, who are developmentally able to perceive a situation from the thirdperson perspective and who value peer approval, purposefully share content to appear interesting, well liked. Teens, gender, and selfpresentation in social media.
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