You are what you post in “circle of friends” of WeChat: Self-presentation and identity production from a personality perspective

Lin, Chenyu; Fang, Wei; Jin, Jian

doi:10.1177/2059436417728855

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“…Impression management and self-presentation are usually discussed together and used interchangeably (Kramer & Haferkamp, 2011). Scholars have also extensively studied self-presentation in social media contexts (Bullingham & Vasconcelos, 2013;Ellison et al, 2006;Hogan, 2010;Lin et al, 2017;Marwick & Boyd, 2010). An individual's online profile, including avatars, interests, affiliations, friends lists, and status updates, as well as digitized activities such as likes, dislikes, comments, and location tagging on social media platforms (Chua & Chang, 2016;Mendelson & Papacharissi, 2011;Silva & Frith, 2012) can all be conceptualized as "expressive equipment" (Goffman, 1959, p. 22) to present oneself, crafted in the form of texts, photos, audios, videos, and web links.…”

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Shameful Secrets and Self-Presentation: Negotiating Privacy Practices Among Youth and Rural Women in China

2020

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China, like the United States, has no defined concept of privacy in its Constitution and Chinese citizens have to work out how to negotiate their presence online, just as others elsewhere do. Online privacy in China has not received strong legislative protection compared with the U.S. and European countries as privacy has never written as an individual right in China’s Constitution, nor in the Civil Law. Chinese privacy perceptions and everyday privacy practices in social media have not been fully examined. This article presents an original, ethnographic study of how 26 Chinese youth, men and women, and 25 older rural women from Changsha, south-central China are negotiating what counts as privacy online in their everyday practices. It finds out that youth group in Changsha has a stronger understanding of the technical level of deployment of the social media technologies, enacting both positive and protective self-presentation instantiated by “human flesh search,” “public online privacy,” and “improved firewall.” However, the notion of shameful secrets touches on the protection of the reputation of those concerned, and social relationships play an important role in privacy boundary negotiation, common to both groups. This demonstrates that sociocultural contexts need to be taken into consideration and should be more nuancedly examined when studying online privacy and working out privacy protection methods.

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Section: Online Privacy and Self-presentationmentioning

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Shameful Secrets and Self-Presentation: Negotiating Privacy Practices Among Youth and Rural Women in China

2020

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“…Hua (29, female, PhD student, Shanghai) Similar to Hua, many respondents believe that readers can already get an idea about the person through his or her reposts about the famous. A previous study has shown that the content posted on 'circle of friends' can reflect the user's real personality traits (Lin et al 2017). The behaviour of reposting itself, as some respondents suggest, is a sign of recognition.…”

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‘Mingrenare the respectable ones’: an analysis of everyday engagements with contemporary celebrity culture in China

2019

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To investigate the values and social norms underpinning celebrity culture, it is crucial to study everyday uses of celebrity culture. Yet, studies in this area have been limited thus far, especially in non-Western contexts. This exploratory study focuses on the ways how young and middle-aged adults in everyday life in urban China discuss and value media celebrities. The results show that respondents have a rather similar way of valuing celebrity: celebrities need to have strong work ethics and showcase social responsibility; only then do they 'earn' their right to be considered 'famous'. We conclude that these values are closely related to the current socio-cultural situation of China's social transformation and echo the value system promoted by the Chinese government.

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“…We chose WeChat profiles as stimuli since WeChat is one of the most popular social networking sites (SNSs) in China (Lin et al, 2017). Moreover, as noted earlier, the layout and content of WeChat profiles are more straightforward compared to other SNS profiles.…”

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First Impression Formation Based on Valenced Self-Disclosure in Social Media Profiles

Qin

Cho

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Front. Psychol.

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This study aims to understand how the valence of self-disclosure (operationalized as the dominantly positive vs. balanced vs. dominantly negative social media posts of a future collaborator) influences first impression formation on social media. We also focus on trustworthiness as a mediator and perceived homophily as a moderator to specify the underlying mechanisms through which self-disclosure valence affects first impression formation. The results from an online experiment (N = 204) suggest that self-disclosure valence has a significant effect on perceived trustworthiness and likability when individuals evaluate an unknown future collaborator using the social media profile. Trustworthiness mediates the effect of self-disclosure valence on likability when the individuals feel that they are dissimilar or even slightly similar to strangers. At that time, individuals tend to seek cues from both self-disclosure valence and perceived homophily to form the trustworthiness perception, and the influence of self-disclosure depends on the level of perceived homophily.

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You are what you post in “circle of friends” of WeChat: Self-presentation and identity production from a personality perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 49 publications

Shameful Secrets and Self-Presentation: Negotiating Privacy Practices Among Youth and Rural Women in China

Shameful Secrets and Self-Presentation: Negotiating Privacy Practices Among Youth and Rural Women in China

‘Mingrenare the respectable ones’: an analysis of everyday engagements with contemporary celebrity culture in China

First Impression Formation Based on Valenced Self-Disclosure in Social Media Profiles

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