Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Internet Communication and Qualitative Research
Internet Communication and Qualitative Research
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Computers in Human Behavior
Social networks, gender, and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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The present work, through an ethnographic study of MySpace (N=96), examines the ways in which authenticity is accomplished within a labor-exposing space. To maintain authenticity, actors must make invisible the extensive labor of self-presentation. Certain online spaces, such as social network sites and personal interactive homepages, can be thought of as labor-exposing spaces, in that they give actors clear and explicit control over self-representations, making impressions of spontaneity difficult to accomplish (Davis, 2010; Gatson, 2011a; Marwick & boyd, 2010). I discuss and delineate several strategies used by participants to maintain authenticity on MySpace. I conclude that while the priorities of identity processes remain stable over time, the ways in which we accomplish identity are culturally, historically and materially contingent.