The change in user and IT dynamics: Blogs as IT-enabled virtual self-presentation

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 2339-2351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyoung Min ◽  
Heeseok Lee
Author(s):  
Norsiah Abdul Hamid ◽  
Mohd Sobhi Ishak ◽  
Syamsul Anuar Ismail ◽  
Siti Syamsul Nurin Mohmad Yazam

Social media are playing an increasing role in today’s living. The social media platforms allow users to search, create, share, collaborate, and organise contents among them, and at the same time provide virtual self-presentation and self-disclosure of oneself. Social media were also claimed to give implications to human beings with regards to personality, yet these variables have not much been emphasised in previous studies. Thus, it is important to highlight the implications of social media on users’ personality. Given the issues and challenges faced by the country in profiling the adoption of social media and its implications in view of the perspective of personality, it is timely and significantly important to undertake this research in Malaysia. The objective of this chapter is to discuss a research conducted recently to determine the relationships between social media and personality traits. The specific objectives of this study are to identify the profile of social media adoption among students in Malaysia, including duration, frequency of use, purpose, and person/s that introduced the social media, and to determine the relationships between social media and personality traits.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
K. V. Nastoiashcha

Due to modern mobility, as well as the specifics of means of communication there is a large number of people who follow the person and form opinions about him or her, relying mainly on the value of the material plan (to some extent, also on education) that the person can demonstrate, knowing about the tracking. Individualization, as a globalization trend, puts the demand of a person - to live original. Therefore, the actions that are aimed at forming an image, are based primarily on the self-presentation. Modern person is being disconnected from traditional social ties, which is facilitated by changes in the opportunities of social communication. The modern person lacks the communication face to face, but they are replaced by Internet communications. The social network has evolved into a media environment, which is an instrument for self-development, expression, and the design of personal identity. Although the tools for presenting their personality in social networks are still unified and have limitations, they allow the person to create quite a lot of individual images, depending on what the user wants to achieve and how rich his imagination is. The identity is changed, the practice of the self-presentation is changed - a person begins to form his or her own ‘I’ on the basis of the seen, borrowing or copying the images of others (while consuming new media products). Virtual communication also has a number of specific features. Among them there are a large selection of «tools» which can help to form personal identity, lack of physical contact, participants of such communication may not know each other. It gives huge opportunities for presenting yourself to a «virtual environment» and other users of an internet resource. Selfization becomes the popular practice of self-presentation thanks to photographs. Through selfies the person creates and improves his image for public consumption. «Virtual» self-presentation strategies that shape certain images can be different - depending on what the user prefers. Above mentioned strategies are based on the formation of images that appeal to the public: knowledgeable in their business, successful in the profession, sociable, such that belongs to a certain group, good in the physical plane, etc.


Author(s):  
Judita Kasperiuniene ◽  
Odeta Norkute

In the modern world, all the museums, especially science and technology centers, seek transforming from storages of valuable historical objects to the knowledge exchange and construction places. This study aims to research official sites and social media channels of twenty European science and technology museums in order to understand how the virtual museum self-presentation is done. Using thematic analysis five common facets of the science and technology museum official site were coded: i) site interoperability; ii) home page; iii) first ten news; iv) science and education activities; v) information “about us”. All the data were anonymized. The study showed two contradicted science and technology museum virtual self-presentation behavior styles: orientation “Museum as a storage” and orientation “Visitor as a creator”. Researching how science and technology museums experimented with interactive image and text in their official web pages, museum social media site follower responses and museum ratings in social media, we expanded The Museum Visitor Experience Model with insights how the virtual self-presentation could help attracting museum visitors.


Author(s):  
Vavilova A.S.

The article is devoted to the actual problem of personality Self-presentation in social networks among adults and adolescents.Purpose of the article is an empirical study of self-presentation psychological features in social networks and highlighting the differences in the use of virtual self-presentation strategies between adults and adolescents.Methods. To achieve this purpose theoretical methods were used: analysis, synthesis, classification, generalization and systematization; empirical methods: Scale for measuring tactics of Self-presentation Tactics Scale (S. Lee, B. Quigley) and the author’s questionnaire Self-presentation in social networks; statistical methods: T-Student’s criterion and hierarchical cluster analysis.Results. The study of self-presentation strategies in social networks involved two groups of subjects - adolescents (30 subjects aged 11–16 years) and adults (30 subjects aged 21–30 years) with different experiences of using social networks.There are three dominant motives that motivate respondents to use social networks: interest, friends and the desire to show themselves. The leading motive for adolescents is communication with friends, and for adults the characteristic motive is interest and desire to show themselves. The differences between the strategies of virtual Self-presentation in adults and adolescents are analyzed. There are statistically significant differences in the following strategies: avoidance; attractive behavior; self-aggrandizement; self-humiliation and force.Using hierarchical cluster analysis, groups of social networks users of adults and adolescents were singled out according to the parameter of using virtual Self-presentation tactics. Among adults, there are three user groups: 1) ideals-users, who want to present themselves as leaders; 2) users, who partially want to live the lives of others; 3) users, who want to assert themselves in the virtual world. There are also three groups of adolescents who use social networks: 1) users, who want to be liked and get social approval; 2) users aimed at Self-affirmation and 3) users, who need support.Conclusions. It was found that in the conditions of active informatization there are different motives for using social networks in adults and adolescents. Differences in the choice of self-presentation strategies by adults and adolescents in social networks are identified and the types of users are selected according to the choice of the dominant strategy of virtual self-presentation.Key words: self-presentation, adult and adolescence, social networks, self-image, self-presentation strategies, self-expression. Стаття присвячена актуальній проблемі самопрезентації особистості у соціальних мережах серед дорослих та підлітків.Мета статті – емпіричне вивчення психологічних особливостей самопрезентації у соціальних мережах та виокремлення відмінностей у використанні стратегій віртуальної самопрезентації у дорослих та підлітків.Методи. Для реалізації поставленої мети використовувались теоретичні методи: аналіз, синтез, класифікація, узагальнення та систематизація; емпіричні методи: «Шкала виміру тактик самопрезентації» (С. Лі, Б. Куіглі) та авторська анкета «Самопрезентація особистості в соціальних мережах»; статистичні методи: критерій Т-Стьюдента та ієрархічний кластерний аналіз.Результати. У дослідженні стратегій віртуальної самопрезентації взяли участь дві групи досліджуваних – підлітки (30 досліджуваних віком 11–16 років) та дорослі (30 досліджуваних віком 21–30 років) з різним досвідом користування соціальними мережами. Виділено три домінуючі мотиви, що спонукають досліджуваних користуватися соціальними мережами: цікавість, друзі та бажання показати себе. Серед підлітків провідним мотивом є спілкування з друзями, а для дорослих характерні мотиви цікавості та бажання показати себе. Проаналізовано відмінності стратегій віртуальної самопрезентації у дорослих та підлітків. Виявлено статистично значущі відмінності за такими стратегіями: ухилення; атрактивна поведінка; самозвеличення; самоприниження та силовий вплив.За допомогою ієрархічного кластерного аналізу виокремлено групи користувачів соціальних мереж дорослих та підлітків за параметром використання тактик віртуальної самопрезентації. Серед дорослих встановлено три групи користувачів: 1) «користувачі-ідеали», які прагнуть презентувати себе як лідерів; 2) користувачі, які частково прагнуть жити життям інших; 3) користувачі, які прагнуть самоствердитись у віртуальному світі. Серед підлітків-користувачів соціальних мереж також виявлено три групи: 1) користувачі, які прагнуть сподобатись і отримати соціальне схвалення; 2) користувачі, спрямовані на самоствердження та 3) користувачі, які прагнуть підтримки.Висновки. З’ясовано, що в умовах активної інформатизації існують відмінні мотиви користування соціальними мережами у дорослих та підлітків. Визначено відмінності у виборі стратегій самопрезентації дорослими та підлітками у соціальних мережах та виокремлено типи користувачів за вибором домінуючої стратегії віртуальної самопрезентації.Ключові слова: самопрезентація, дорослий та підлітковий вік, соціальні мережі, Я-образ, страте-гії самопрезентації, самовираження.


Author(s):  
Natalia Golubeva ◽  
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Anna Ayanyan ◽  
Svetlana Preobrazhenskaya ◽  
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...  

"The article provides an overview of current research on the problem of digital socialization, as well as the features of constructing a virtual self-presentation. The proposed problem is up-to-date due to the fact that digital environment and social networks in particular, become more and more integrated into the process of socialization. The questions of how a person develops, lives and realizes his or her needs in digital environment turn out to be more and more significant. This article highlights the features of virtual self-presentation built by modern adolescents and young men (n=144). The obtained data show the features of creating a virtual self-presentation as well as internal and external factors affecting the characteristics and content of digital identity, which is mostly relevant for teenagers and youths. It was also found the relation between the level of social self-control and construction of self-presentation in social networks."


Author(s):  
Eugene Y. Kukshinov

The author employs a theoretic construct based on self-presentation approach and a self-concept which is taken as a complex structure of self-schema and possible selves. Within the framework of this model (or “self-matrix”), self-presentation is observed under the conditions of virtual reality, in which the usual ties between various aspects of one's self may be lost, producing uncharacteristic performance. The author claims that immersive interaction within the simulated environment of virtual reality may be experienced to such an extent that new properties of the self are obtained, bringing a change in real behavior. The resultant performance might contradict existing social circumstances and vice versa.


2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Roma ◽  
Federica Ricci ◽  
Georgios D. Kotzalidis ◽  
Luigi Abbate ◽  
Anna Lubrano Lavadera ◽  
...  

In recent years, several studies have addressed the issue of positive self-presentation bias in assessing parents involved in postdivorce child custody litigations. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used in forensic assessments and is able to evaluate positive self-presentation through its Superlative Self-Presentation S scale. We investigated the existence of a gender effect on positive self-presentation bias in an Italian sample of parents involved in court evaluation. Participants were 391 divorced parents who completed the full 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 during child custody evaluations ordered by several Italian courts between 2006 and 2010. Our analysis considered the S scale along with the basic clinical scales. North-American studies had shown no gender differences in child custody litigations. Differently, our results showed a significantly higher tendency toward “faking-good” profiles on the MMPI-2 among Italian women as compared to men and as compared to the normative Italian female population. Cultural and social factors could account for these differences.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Jansen ◽  
Cornelius J. König ◽  
Eveline H. Stadelmann ◽  
Martin Kleinmann

This study contributes to the literature on self-presentation by comparing recruiters’ expectations about applicants’ self-presentational behaviors in personnel selection settings to applicants’ actual use of these behaviors. Recruiters (N = 51) rated the perceived appropriateness of 24 self-presentational behaviors. In addition, the prevalence of these behaviors was separately assessed in two subsamples of applicants (N1 = 416 and N2 = 88) with the randomized response technique. In line with the script concept, the results revealed that recruiters similarly evaluated the appropriateness of specific self-presentational behaviors and that applicants’ general use of these behaviors corresponded to recruiters’ shared expectations. The findings indicate that applicants who use strategic self-presentational behaviors may just be trying to fulfill situational requirements.


1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-373
Author(s):  
Donelson R. Forsyth

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