Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide

Lauriano, Lucas Amaral; Coacci, Thiago

doi:10.5465/amj.2020.0586

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“…Research focused on impression management in social media has also explored the role of self-disclosure. The desire to manage impressions via self-disclosure is a widely-documented strategy in social media (Bazarova & Choi, 2014; Lauriano & Coacci, 2021; Marder, Joinson, Shankar, & Thirlaway, 2016; Ollier-Malaterre et al, 2013; Rothbard, Ramarajan, Ollier-Malaterre, & Lee, 2022). Comparatively less work has focused on the impression-related consequences of such strategies in this domain.…”

Section: A Virtual Impression Management Frameworkmentioning

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A Review of Virtual Impression Management Behaviors and Outcomes

Blunden,

Brodsky

2024

Journal of Management

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Over the past half century, virtual interactions have become a mainstay of contemporary organizations, whether leveraged for formal job interviews or day-to-day communication. Despite this central role, there is a lack of a holistic understanding of how employees make and manage impressions in these virtual contexts. In this article, we review, organize, and evaluate the state of the growing body of cross-disciplinary research on virtual impression management. We develop a guiding theoretical framework that identifies three categories of virtual impression management behavior (verbal, nonverbal, and meta behavior) that meaningfully alter impressions, and the conditions under which these outcomes vary. Through considering this body of research as a whole, we highlight that virtual interactions are quite rich when it comes to creating impressions. By illustrating where virtual impression management research has concentrated thus far, our review enables us to conclude by offering an agenda for future research on virtual impression management.

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Section: A Virtual Impression Management Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Virtual Impression Management Behaviors and Outcomes

Blunden,

Brodsky

2024

Journal of Management

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“…In an exemplary discussion of exceptions, Margolis and Molinsky (2008) investigated outlier cases and found that cases from one occupation (“manager”) created a boundary condition for their qualitative study findings. Making clear the reconciliation of exceptions in qualitative research enables researchers to provide richer, more nuanced theoretical explanations (e.g., Jarzabkowski, 2008; Lauriano & Coacci, 2023). We encourage more qualitative researchers to discuss why they did or did not include an emergent exception in their model and how they came to that conclusion.…”

Section: Codifying Suggestions For Exception Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Exceptions Exceptional: A Cross-Methodological Review and Future Research Agenda

Hymer,

Smith

2024

Journal of Management

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“Exceptions” refers to data obtained from a nontraditional context and/or data that emerge during data analysis that substantially deviate from other data present within a study. Both qualitative and quantitative research acknowledge exceptions; however, approaches for handling and discussing exceptions vary across these two perspectives and are rarely integrated. We provide a two-decade review of exception usages across 930 empirical articles in six leading management journals. Through our review, we identify two types of exceptions: planned and emergent. “Planned exceptions” describes unique data or phenomenon used to motivate a study design. “Emergent exceptions” describes nonconforming data that arise during data analysis. We review on-diagonal and off-diagonal patterns in exception uses across qualitative and quantitative research, pointing to varied ways that exceptions are used to further management theory. Based on insights gleaned from our review, we provide suggestions for researchers in handling exceptions across different phases of the research process: study design, data analysis, and findings presentation.

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“…The pervasiveness of social media within daily practices has contributed to a blurrier distinction between work and non-work activities (see Ollier-Malaterre et al, 2013). In that context, individuals might decide to split their online identities into multiple segregated profiles to keep a boundary between their professional and private roles (see Lauriano and Coacci, 2021), or to create a unified representation that fits their different roles so as ‘to appear as a univocal person online’ (Fieseler et al, 2015: 156). Either way, networked technologies, such as social media, afford forms of strategic self-presentation that exceed the capabilities of face-to-face interactions, as they allow users to better conceal that which they do not wish to convey, while accentuating that which they do (Walther, 2007).…”

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“…In addition, it has been shown that online arenas tend to produce identities that are reduced to stereotypical images (Sundén and Sveningsson, 2012; Wajcman, 2010). Given the possibility to create multiple profiles, the capacity for anonymity or pseudonymity and its asynchronous nature, social media grant individuals new means for impression management, by allowing them to present ‘desired selves’ (Zhao et al, 2008), to avoid being associated with stigmatising stereotypes (Lauriano and Coacci, 2021), and to engage in more strategic self-presentation to maintain positive self-images (Ellison et al, 2006). This particular aspect will be explored in this paper through the case of digital nomadism.…”

Section: Online Identity and Digital Nomadismmentioning

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Romanticisation and monetisation of the digital nomad lifestyle: The role played by online narratives in shaping professional identity work

2022

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Some occupations are subject to more complex identity work processes than others. This rings true for those professional endeavours that are relatively poorly known and that cannot rely on institutions as a reference for identification, such as digital nomadism. Digital nomads can broadly be defined as professionals who embrace extreme forms of mobile work to combine their interest in travel with the possibility to work remotely. Building on a two-stage data collection process, this paper proposes a typology that characterises four archetypes of digital nomad lifestyle promoters’ narratives found online and show how these online narratives play a role in the process of identity work of other digital nomads. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we show that while the archetypes act as an important online identity regulatory force, they do so through dis-identification. Second, we explain how identity work for digital nomads involves evaluating discursively available subjectivities and propose a three-step reflexive process that entails (i) interpreting, (ii) dis-identifying and (iii) contextualising. We contend that our findings extend beyond the specific case of digital nomads and shed light onto the intricacies of work identity for ‘new’ occupations that are romanticised and monetised through social media and beyond.

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Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide

Cited by 8 publications

References 86 publications

A Review of Virtual Impression Management Behaviors and Outcomes

A Review of Virtual Impression Management Behaviors and Outcomes

Making Exceptions Exceptional: A Cross-Methodological Review and Future Research Agenda

Romanticisation and monetisation of the digital nomad lifestyle: The role played by online narratives in shaping professional identity work

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