{"id":5959,"date":"2025-04-28T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T00:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:23:57","slug":"selfconscious-how-instagram-rewrites-and-destroys-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5959\/selfconscious-how-instagram-rewrites-and-destroys-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"#SelfConscious: How Instagram Rewrites and Destroys Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-23-at-6.52.59-pm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nabstract \n\n\n\nThis paper explores how Instagram significantly alters user identities by increasing self-consciousness and the need for online validation. Drawing on psychological studies, sociological theories, and real-world examples, it argues that Instagram\u2019s visual and interactive features, such as likes, comments, and curated profiles, contribute to a shift from authentic self-expression to performance-driven identity. Grounded in Goffman\u2019s concept of the \u201cpresentation of self,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5959\/selfconscious-how-instagram-rewrites-and-destroys-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>abstract This paper explores how Instagram significantly alters user identities by increasing self-consciousness and the need for online validation. Drawing on psychological studies, sociological theories, and real-world examples, it argues that Instagram\u2019s visual and interactive features, such as likes, comments, and curated profiles, contribute to a shift from authentic self-expression to performance-driven identity. Grounded in Goffman\u2019s concept of the \u201cpresentation of self,\u201d the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":6134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1536,1711,1712,1315],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ioa","tag-digitalidentity","tag-idenitity","tag-identitychange","tag-instagram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","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\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5960,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}