Searching for Self and Relationships Online

Matsuba, M. Kyle

doi:10.1089/cpb.2006.9.275

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“…Evidence suggests that less physically attractive individuals are less liked and less sought by others (Reis et al, 1982;Langlois et al, 2000). Additionally, evidence suggests that declines in young adults' social circles can lead to loneliness and may increase their use of the Internet, including social networks (Matsuba, 2006). Likewise, increased use of the Internet may reduce young adults' social circles (Kraut, Patterson, Lundmark, Kiesler, Mukophadhayay, & Scherelis, 1998), which increases their loneliness and Internet use.…”

Section: Body Image and The Desire To Become Someone Elsementioning

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Ugly Duckling by Day, Super Model by Night: The Influence of Body Image on the Use of Virtual Worlds

Becerra¹,

Stutts²

2008

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Section: Body Image and The Desire To Become Someone Elsementioning

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Ugly Duckling by Day, Super Model by Night: The Influence of Body Image on the Use of Virtual Worlds

Becerra¹,

Stutts²

2008

JVWR

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“…Extensive research has been conducted over the past twenty years to extend the field's knowledge of SCC and how those high in SCC differ in several areas compared to those low in SCC. Those low in SCC have been demonstrated to have low grades in school (Thomas & Gadbois, 2007), and used the internet more in an attempt to define their selves (Matsuba, 2006). Those high in SCC were more likely to use cooperative problemsolving techniques than their low in SCC counterparts during social conflict (Bechtoldt, De Dreu, Nijstad, & Zapf, 2010) and had higher relationship satisfaction and commitment (Lewandowski Jr., Nardone, & Raines, 2009).…”

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When failure hurts the most: Goal fusion and the impact of negative feedback on self-concept clarity

Curtis¹

2014

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“…With its interactional, political and sexual possibilities, the Internet has become an integral part of how individuals construct the world (see Bargh et al 2002; as well as Matsuba 2006). The World Wide Web has altered the ways in which individuals perceive themselves, creating multiple ways of inhabiting various spaces and engaging with others.…”

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From the distributed self to the expanded self: gay identity and shifting subject–object positions in online and offline performance

Terblanche

Broodryk

2014

South African Theatre Journal

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This study investigates identity construction in online (virtual) and offline (visceral) spaces. Throughout the emphasis is on gay male identity construction. Specifically, the article explores how performance theory can be used to read persona construction in online webcam environments. The mediatory role of online technologies is considered in this regard. In turn, Rian Terblanche's installation-performance owner's MANual to conSEXtualisation is used to discuss how a performance located in a designated physical space demonstrates how such online persona constructions are indicative of constantly shifting subject-object positions, often culminating in what this study refers to as the pornstarification of the persona. This investigation is primarily informed by the work of Turkle and Benedetti, and establishes a link between Turkle's notion of the distributed self and Benedetti's notion of the expanded self as one way to allow online and offline spaces to conceptually speak to one another around gay male identity.Keywords: expanded self; gay masculinity; installation-performance; subject-object positions; pornstarification; virtual/visceral IntroductionWith its interactional, political and sexual possibilities, the Internet has become an integral part of how individuals construct the world (see Bargh et al. 2002; as well as Matsuba 2006). The World Wide Web has altered the ways in which individuals perceive themselves, creating multiple ways of inhabiting various spaces and engaging with others. By collapsing the boundaries between fact/fiction as well as flesh/machine (Govan et al. 2007, p. 176), new possibilities in creating relationships between online and offline identities have emerged and multiple discourses around the construction of identities have surfaced.Driven by an interest in tensions between the online and offline, in 2009 I guided the devising and staging of the installation-performance owner's MANual to conSEXtualisation performed from 28 April-2 May 2009 at the Masker Theatre of the University of Pretoria.1 The purpose of the production was to explore how theatrical notions of performance can reframe the construction of gay sexual identity within the context of pornographic desire in a virtual gay chat site environment. The ways in which theatrical performance and the theatre space itself may be utilised in order to interrogate how virtual environments (particularly gay webcam chat sites) position and construct gay male identities was interrogated. This study aims to investigate how a process of character construction for theatrical performance may inform the performance of the webcam performer on a gay video chat site. To do this, this study examines the relationship between the looking subjects' pornographic desire and the creation of the performer's object position. This study is conducted at the intersection of new media theory, queer theory and theatre (performance) theory in order to optimally address a research question that demands such a multi-angled approach.

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Searching for Self and Relationships Online

Cited by 83 publications

References 20 publications

Ugly Duckling by Day, Super Model by Night: The Influence of Body Image on the Use of Virtual Worlds

Ugly Duckling by Day, Super Model by Night: The Influence of Body Image on the Use of Virtual Worlds

When failure hurts the most: Goal fusion and the impact of negative feedback on self-concept clarity

From the distributed self to the expanded self: gay identity and shifting subject–object positions in online and offline performance

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