{"id":5879,"date":"2025-04-28T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:10:31","slug":"expressing-yourself-or-acting-like-someone-else-how-the-online-gaming-community-fosters-the-creation-of-a-second-social-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5879\/expressing-yourself-or-acting-like-someone-else-how-the-online-gaming-community-fosters-the-creation-of-a-second-social-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing Yourself or Acting like Someone Else: How the online gaming community fosters the creation of a second social identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper supports the idea that online gaming communities foster the creation of a second social identity that differs from their offline social identity, and how this second identity is not expressing yourself, but acting like someone else. This paper addresses this through Roblox, an online game and Discord, a social network commonly used by gamers. Much like presenting yourself in a more positive light on social media, those involved in online games like to present themselves in <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5879\/expressing-yourself-or-acting-like-someone-else-how-the-online-gaming-community-fosters-the-creation-of-a-second-social-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper supports the idea that online gaming communities foster the creation of a second social identity that differs from their offline social identity, and how this second identity is not expressing yourself, but acting like someone else. This paper addresses this through Roblox, an online game and Discord, a social network commonly used by gamers. Much like presenting yourself in a more positive light on social media, those involved in online games like to present themselves in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}