Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions

Gorea, Michelle

doi:10.1177/20563051211047875

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“…The material includes interactive activities, links, and other resources; therefore, students can actively search through medias available on the links, re-read, replay and develop their knowledge from the links and examples provided on the internet. Examples include understandable terms such as digital selves, grooming, red flag feeling, the authentic self [46], how positive self and negative self-image work, the notion of Curated and how to curate Idol, hoaxes, fakes, media balance and digital well-being [42].…”

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The Urgency of Digital Citizenship Learning Module for Indonesian Student

Pawitan¹,

Pradja²,

Fetrianggi³

2023

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Secondary school students have unlimited internet access through technology devices, and they have become part of the virtual citizen. The rise of violence, fraud, digital rape, and the adverse of negative effect of digital socialization gives its own concerns. For these reasons, this study intends to provide a learning module of social guidance to prepare 21 century digital learners to develop awareness towards digital citizenship mindset. The research method uses mixed methods with a qualitative research and development approach when making a module. The stages are named define, design, develop and disseminate. Evaluation used was expert appraisals, audience analysis, and attitude observations. The module is a self-learning material of themes from digital citizenship skills; the curated selves, chatting and red flags, and lastly, hoaxes and fakes, that packed with numerous resources such as video links, article, reflective self-evaluation and interactive scientific resources. The survey conducted resulting that the module is considered effective for learners so they can generate a good social behavior in digital world, a sense of responsibility, increase security, have self-limits on threats and dangers, be confident, and be proficient in using technology in the virtual world. Based on preliminary observations, this study is the first in Indonesia which introduces the concept of digital citizenship through a learning module, ultimately, for secondary school level. Implications for the findings will be on an effort of behavioral changes for learners in secondary school level.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Urgency of Digital Citizenship Learning Module for Indonesian Student

Pawitan¹,

Pradja²,

Fetrianggi³

2023

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“…The act of crafting a space that represented who the teen was, and that allowed them to play with and "try on" different identities, contributed to the utopian views of the early internet (Turkle, 1997(Turkle, , 2011. Indeed, numerous social media studies focus on young adults' identities online (e.g., boyd, 2008;Davis, 2012;Gorea, 2021;Hodkinson, 2017). Media used for education, on the other hand, have been deemed a separate category.…”

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“…Indeed, numerous social media studies focus on young adults’ identities online (e.g., boyd, 2008; Davis, 2012; Gorea, 2021; Hodkinson, 2017). Media used for education, on the other hand, have been deemed a separate category.…”

Section: Virtual Learning Environmentsmentioning

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Zoom Affordances and Identity: A Case Study

Cirucci

2023

Social Media + Society

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While how to engage students in online settings is a popular topic of study, largely left out are the ways in which virtual learning environments (VLEs) have implications for identity performance (and subsequently learning quality). This case study pairs a walkthrough analysis of Zoom with an open-ended survey ( n = 250, M = 21.5) to investigate how VLE affordances impact student identifications. Findings indicate that students prefer Zoom because it is “user-friendly,” forgoing wordy options and instead presenting a more “appified” user interface. Students were concerned about their classmates and professors seeing their physical backgrounds, particularly those who reported family incomes below $50,000. Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) who identify as women feared being judged based on physical appearance. Overall, Zoom seems to discourage identity performance norms that are common via popular social media apps, and thus, students rarely perceive any possible identity affordances. Instead, Zoom feels different, and users are led to perceive turning on cameras, showing their live faces, and revealing their physical backgrounds as uncomfortable and not connected to their course-related needs.

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“…. is widely celebrated as part of the currency of ‘realness,’ bound up with the notion of creative individualism valorized on social media.” (p. 135) These logics trickle down as average users mimic “influencers” in self-branding strategies that perform “realness” in strategic ways (Gorea, 2021; Marwick, 2013), especially on apps prioritizing images.…”

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Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal

Taylor

2023

Social Media + Society

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This article critically analyzes the BeReal social media platform, considering how its infrastructure enables a new kind of networked public. I utilize the walkthrough method to examine how BeReal’s “environment of expected use” and vision aims to instill authenticity as a value and ideal for users. I also employ the concept of networked public as a framework to understand how BeReal organizes attention and action through networked technologies that create both a mediated space and collection of people. From this analysis of BeReal’s digital structure, I develop the concept of a live networked public to characterize BeReal’s ability to coordinate interpersonal and global connections to a specific temporality. Furthermore, I connect live networked public to a concept of authenticity in the app’s design by arguing that BeReal’s concept of “realness” is contingent on its unique affordances. Particular features not only support the core network public on the app, but guide behaviors to encourage a particular version of “sporadic” authenticity. This version is useful for BeReal’s branding as the “most authentic” platform in competition with other social media apps. This work combines scholarship on networked publics and affordances, with that on liveness—specifically online and group liveness. Given that BeReal’s skyrocketing popularity tapered off, this study also highlights the importance of analyzing newcomers to the social media ecosystem that promise and play with new ways of being and interacting online.

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Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions

Cited by 19 publications

References 47 publications

The Urgency of Digital Citizenship Learning Module for Indonesian Student

The Urgency of Digital Citizenship Learning Module for Indonesian Student

Zoom Affordances and Identity: A Case Study

Everyone Stop What You’re Doing and BeReal: Live Networked Publics and Authenticity on BeReal

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