Category: Identity in Communities and Networks

The stream focuses on the place of identity in communities and social networks.

Identity in Communities and Networks

Private worlds in the public domain: safeguarding privacy in social media networks

Jacqueline Pond23 Comments

Participants in social media networks should utilise acts of privacy to protect their identity whilst they engage in online information sharing. This will ensure that participants in these online communities can exhibit and express various aspects of their identity without compromising their personal integrity through unsolicited information sharing. Abstract This paper argues for the importance… Continue reading Private worlds in the public domain: safeguarding privacy in social media networks

Identity in Communities and Networks

The Reality of Online Identity: Millennial use of Instagram

Aidan Jackson-Taylor27 Comments

Aidan Jackson-Taylor Curtin University Abstract This paper explores the concept of online identity deception and the impact of this behaviour in the environment of social media, especially Instagram. Identity deception is explored in the context of early Usenet Newsgroups, Online Role-Playing Games as well as social media. The motivations for Instagram use are discussed and… Continue reading The Reality of Online Identity: Millennial use of Instagram

Identity in Communities and Networks

Online identities: the real, the fake, and the inbetween.

JEastcott23 Comments

Abstract The world wide web is rife with communities serving basically every topic imaginable. In over 20 years the web has grown so much that there is a place online for any interest a person may have, from the common interests of the average person to the perverse, the weird and sometimes illegal. In this… Continue reading Online identities: the real, the fake, and the inbetween.

Identity in Communities and Networks

Communities, Networks and People: Shaping our identity to fit the environment

Michelle Mewburn30 Comments

Abstract: Everybody is connected to at least one type of community or network.  This could be family, work associates, social networks, and online communities.  None of us behave in exactly the same way in each of those communities because what is acceptable in one may not be acceptable in other for a number of reasons.… Continue reading Communities, Networks and People: Shaping our identity to fit the environment

Identity in Communities and Networks

Life is a Performance: Facebook, Self-Representation and Self-Esteem

Lana Galea27 Comments

Abstract This paper argues that idealistic self-presentations on Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook risk damaging other users’ self-esteem by portraying and disseminating unrealistic personas, ideals and lifestyles and thereby triggering upward social comparisons. Using the concept of identity as a performance, as coined by Goffman (1959), this paper explores the opportunities for identity… Continue reading Life is a Performance: Facebook, Self-Representation and Self-Esteem

Identity in Communities and Networks

Impression management and self-presentation techniques allow profile owners to present a professional identity on LinkedIn improving the perception of their professional character

Krystal Dawe16 Comments

This essay explores the construction of identity in the online environment with a focus on professional identity on social networking sites such as LinkedIn. It does so by discussing the notion of identity being fluid, ever changing in nature and adaptable to its environment allowing individuals to present a certain identity depending on the context… Continue reading Impression management and self-presentation techniques allow profile owners to present a professional identity on LinkedIn improving the perception of their professional character