Impression management concerns and support-seeking behavior on social network sites

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Jung Oh ◽  
Robert LaRose
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Support Seeking

Managing celebrity via impression management on social network sites

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame J.A. Agyemang ◽  
Antonio S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Celebrity Status ◽  
Proactive Measures ◽  
Analytic Design

Purpose Central to the celebrity creation process is mass media communication and impression management (IM) behaviors of social actors. The emergence of social network sites (SNSs) such as Twitter offers a platform for social actors to engage both of these means in efforts to manage their celebrity. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how celebrity athletes manage their celebrity status by investigating IM tactics employed by National Basketball Association (NBA) celebrities on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach A content analytic design was employed to examine the Twitter posts of the top ten most popular and influential NBA celebrity athletes (past and present) at the time of tweet acquisition. Findings The findings revealed the celebrity athletes used a variety of IM tactics to manage their celebrity. Defensive IM tactics (i.e. reactive measures taken) were used sparingly when compared to offensive IM tactics (i.e. proactive measures taken). Also, consistent with extant IM literature, the celebrity athletes utilized IM tactics in isolation as well as in combination. Practical implications The extant literature suggests that celebrities cultivate their relationships with the various media outlets with the potential to create (or even damage) one’s celebrity. This study offers celebrity athletes and their managers with useful insight on celebrity management. Originality/value This study is the first to examine IM in a sport business context, particularly the use of IM of athletes on SNSs.

scholarly journals Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Stutzman ◽  
Ralph Gross ◽  
Alessandro Acquisti
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Over Time

Over the past decade, social network sites have experienced dramatic growth in popularity, reaching most demographics and providing new opportunities for interaction and socialization. Through this growth, users have been challenged to manage novel privacy concerns and balance nuanced trade-offs between disclosing and withholding personal information. To date, however, no study has documented how privacy and disclosure evolved on social network sites over an extended period of time. In this manuscript we use profile data from a longitudinal panel of 5,076 Facebook users to understand how their privacy and disclosure behavior changed between 2005---the early days of the network---and 2011. Our analysis highlights three contrasting trends. First, over time Facebook users in our dataset exhibited increasingly privacy-seeking behavior, progressively decreasing the amount of personal data shared publicly with unconnected profiles in the same network. However, and second, changes implemented by Facebook near the end of the period of time under our observation arrested or in some cases inverted that trend. Third, the amount and scope of personal information that Facebook users revealed privately to other connected profiles actually increased over time---and because of that, so did disclosures to ``silent listeners'' on the network: Facebook itself, third-party apps, and (indirectly) advertisers. These findings highlight the tension between privacy choices as expressions of individual subjective preferences, and the role of the environment in shaping those choices.

Pathfinding Discourses of Self in Social Network Sites

2011 ◽  
pp. 1634-1659
Author(s):  
Mariza Georgalou
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Analytical Tools

It has been argued that social network sites (SNSs) constitute a cultural arena which gives rise to the processes of self-presentation, impression management and friendship performance (boyd & Ellison, 2007). Based on the tenets of discourse-centered online ethnography, this study investigates how identity can be discursively generated, reproduced and co-constructed within the genre of SNSs, taking as a case in point Pathfinder, a Greek portal which incorporates social networking features. The tendencies suggested by interviewing a Pathfinder web developer as well as by a pilot survey on social networking are traced in a popular Pathfinder networker’s profile. Adopting Zhao et al.’s (2008) sociological model of implicit and explicit identity claims on SNSs and leaning on critical discourse analytical tools (Fairclough, 2003; Reisigl & Wodak, 2001), the chapter explores how the online self can be cemented and disseminated in narrative, enumerative and visual terms via an armory of linguistic and multimodal strategies. In this fashion, SNSs should not be approached as a sheer technological artefact, but as a “space for growth” (Turkle, 1997) that encourages users to have agency shaping collaboratively their own linguistic, social and psychological development.

scholarly journals Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
danah boyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Networked Publics

Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook serve as networked publics. As with unmediated publics like parks and malls, youth use networked publics to gather, socialize with their peers, and make sense of and help build the culture around them. This article examines American youth engagement in networked publics and considers how properties unique to such mediated environments (e.g., persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences) affect the ways in which youth interact with one another. Ethnographic data is used to analyze how youth recognize these structural properties and find innovative ways of making these systems serve their purposes. Issues like privacy and impression management are explored through the practices of teens and youth participation in social network sites is situated in a historical discussion of youth's freedom and mobility in the United States.

scholarly journals Why so quiet? Exploring inhibition in digital public spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312110173
Author(s):  
Hilde Sakariassen ◽  
Irene Costera Meijer
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
The Spiral Of Silence

Social network sites have been considered as important arenas for public debate, but as a large proportion of users do not actively participate, there is a need to further our understanding of a phenomenon as hidden, unnoticed and invisible as non-participation. We argue that inhibition is a valuable socio-psychological lens to study non-participation, usefully extending the conceptual framework of political communication regarding non-participation, and offering a more precise way of theorising the intent behind this apparent passivity. Using representative survey data collected in Norway in 2017 ( N = 2064), we first sensitise the multi-layered concept of inhibition through combining different dominant approaches: the spiral-of-silence theory, the harsh debate climate, political efficacy, and specific properties of social network sites related to identity and impression management. Second, we show that inhibition functions as an in-between concept balancing participation and non-participation in social network sites. Through factor analysis principal component factor (PCF), we integrate established theories that allow us to define overarching dimensions of inhibition, demonstrating that it is a complex phenomenon not easily understood through one specific theoretical perspective.

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