scholarly journals Practices of self-presentation in the Internet space: forms and trends

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
K. V. Nastoiashcha
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Internet Resource ◽  
Space Forms ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Public Consumption

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.

scholarly journals Mempertanyakan Privasi di Era Selebgram: Masih Adakah?

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Ester Krisnawati
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Presentation

Abstract: Instagram marks the importance of participatory culture in the era of new media. This paper aims to examine the complex notion of privacy in regards to children’s privacy that were made famous (by their parents) through Instagram with the selebgram phenomenon. By examining the data gathered using #selebgram and underlining the self-presentation perspective in the study of the psychological communication, the results show that parents have their own motives and goal when uploading their child’s fotos on Instagram. Consequently, the childs have to lose their privacy in cyberspace and of course, the information is vulnerable to crime.Keywords: children’s privacy, Instagram, selebgram, self-presentationAbstrak: Instagram menandai gagasan pentingnya budaya partisipatif dalam era media baru. Tujuan dari paper ini adalah untuk menganalisa konsep Instagram sebagai forum dan sarana komunikasi dengan melihat fenomena selebgram. Paper ini meneliti gagasan kompleks privasi dalam hal privasi anak-anak yang dibuat terkenal (oleh orang tua mereka) melalui Instagram dengan memeriksa data yang dikumpulkan menggunakan #selebgram dan menggarisbawahi perspektif presentasi diri dalam kajian psikologi komunikasi. Hasil analisa menunjukkan bahwa ada motif dan tujuan orang tua memuat foto anaknya di akun Instagram. Sedangkan dampaknya, anak tidak mempunyai privasi di dunia maya dan tentunya informasi tersebut akan rentan disalahgunakan untuk kejahatan.Kata Kunci: Instagram, presentasi diri, privasi anak, selebgram

The Virtual Self and Possible Immersive Consequences of Uncharacteristic Self-Presentation in the Virtual Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Eugene Y. Kukshinov
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Possible Selves ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Simulated Environment ◽  
Real Behavior ◽  
Self Schema

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.

scholarly journals Phenomenological approaches to personal identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Čapek ◽  
Sophie Loidolt
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Continental Tradition ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Temporal Becoming

AbstractThis special issue addresses the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological viewpoint, especially contemporary phenomenological research on selfhood. In the introduction, we first offer a brief survey of the various classic questions related to personal identity according to Locke’s initial proposal and sketch out key concepts and distinctions of the debate that came after Locke. We then characterize the types of approach represented by post-Hegelian, German and French philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We argue that whereas the Anglophone debates on personal identity were initially formed by the persistence question and the characterization question, the “Continental” tradition included remarkably intense debates on the individual or the self as being unique or “concrete,” deeply temporal and—as claimed by some philosophers, like Sartre and Foucault—unable to have any identity, if not one externally imposed. We describe the Continental line of thinking about the “self” as a reply and an adjustment to the post-Lockean “personal identity” question (as suggested by thinkers such as MacIntyre, Ricœur and Taylor). These observations constitute the backdrop for our presentation of phenomenological approaches to personal identity. These approaches run along three lines: (a) debates on the layers of the self, starting from embodiment and the minimal self and running all the way to the full-fledged concept of person; (b) questions of temporal becoming, change and stability, as illustrated, for instance, by aging or transformative life-experiences; and (c) the constitution of identity in the social, institutional, and normative space. The introduction thus establishes a structure for locating and connecting the different contributions in our special issue, which, as an ensemble, represent a strong and differentiated contribution to the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological perspective.

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.

Becoming #Instafamous

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Kováčová
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Self Image

Abstract Drawing on Goffman’s (1990 [1959]) metaphor of stage, this paper considers Instagram a frontstage environment where users are cautious of being watched and attune their performance to how they want to be perceived via strategic self-presentation. This understanding of online performance is particularly pertinent in the discussions of bloggers who turn to Instagram to promote their work to new audiences. Examining the self-presentation practices of three fashion bloggers, this paper argues that to gain popularity on Instagram, bloggers utilize the features of formality and informality in the construction of an authentic and likable self-image. Since in the photographs the bloggers’ professional life is usually depicted as distant from their audience’s reality, the accompanying textual caption serves as a means of providing balance for the overall image the poster seeks to present. Consequently, the caption abounds with features of informality, which connote linguistic immediacy and imitate an intimate conversation with peers.

The dress: Theme and self-presentation in online Australian wedding planning fora

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81
Author(s):  
Brenda Laskey ◽  
Lesley Stirling
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Social

This investigation of the discourse of Australian women in the ‘new media’ context of online special interest advice fora contributes to theory about the ways in which language encodes cultural practices and mediates the social construction of identity. The linguistic self-presentation of participants in 588 asynchronous written posts to wedding planning fora was analysed. Prevalent themes were identified inductively and the degree to which each identified theme was evident in the data was measured. The study uncovered ways in which group membership criteria were expressed and found that traditional ideals of feminine perfection were reinforced. A focus of the investigation was the ways in which the participants spoke about the wedding dress. At times, it was referred to using personification as though it were a proxy for a lover. On other occasions, it appeared to function as a representation of the writer’s idealized bridal self. It emerged as a highly significant cultural object which conferred a special but temporary identity.

The Dark Triad and the self-presentation variables of socially desirable responding and self-monitoring

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 234-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Marcin Kowalski ◽  
Radosław Rogoza ◽  
Philip A. Vernon ◽  
Julie Aitken Schermer
Keyword(s):  
Dark Triad ◽  
The Self ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Self Presentation

scholarly journals When Posting Is Believing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Winter ◽  
Paola Remmelswaal ◽  
Anne Vos
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
The Media ◽  
Identity Shifts

Abstract. Social network sites (SNS) facilitate the expression of users’ opinions to a large audience. This research aimed to investigate whether the characteristics of this new media context strengthen the adaptation of opinions to the majority and lead to an internalization of the expressed views. Based on literature on public self-presentation and identity shifts, it was assumed that the publicness of and the identifiability within SNS elicit stronger expression effects than online forums or non-public settings. A between-subjects experiment ( N = 302) varied the visible majority opinion on a news issue as well as the media context in which participants were asked to write down their opinion. Results showed significant adaptation effects to the majority (positive vs. negative comments) across media contexts. The internalization of attitudes was stronger in SNS groups with a more relevant audience but also occurred in other settings. Consequences for the formation of public opinion are discussed.

scholarly journals ‘Detached Desires’ - Resituating Pornographic and Celebrity Persona Online

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Gareth Longstaff
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Well Function ◽  
Individual Profiles ◽  
Capitalist Ideology

Celebrity and pornography are dominant features of late-capitalist consumption, and both serve to influence and bolster the performance, curation and construction of a sexualised and/or sexually explicit persona online. More so, a range of social and networked spaces such as Twitter XXX, Instagram, JustFor.Fans and onlyfans.com have enabled ‘ordinary’ subjects to assimilate and adapt elements of celebrity and pornographic representation in ways that have permitted them to explicitly and publicly present (and profit from) their private sexual persona. Individuals create and sustain their individual profiles through boundless processes of self-branding, self-promoting, self-objectifying, and the self-management of their sexual personas as “an ideal typification of the neoliberal self, emphasising how demotic neoliberalism, with the aid of celebrity role models instructs” not only their own, but also their viewers desires (McGuigan 2014, p. 224). This enigmatic discourse of sexual self-presentation as a form of empowerment, entrepreneurialism, and an aesthetic mode of influence may well function as an apex of neo-liberal and late capitalist ideology. It is here that the meticulous construction of sexual authenticity and tropes we connect to the banal and everyday are refined and embodied to tactically produce amateurish porn content that followers and fans identify with, algorithmically rate, consistently follow, prolifically share, and (of course) economically subscribe.

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