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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Online identities"”.
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Authenticity, Commodification of the Self, and Micro-Influencers: An in-depth analysis into the online identity construction of South African micro-influencers within the Western Cape
… within the Western Cape construct their online identities on Instagram. Theories of critical political economy of the media, self-branding, and the commodification of the self were applied to the context of micro-influencer identity construction as a means of understanding the mediated …
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Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles
… and understand how Facebook users construct identities using narrative fragments on their profiles and the offline effects of these narrative performances. Specifically, this study argues that narratives are a type of rhetorical performance, and that both narratives and identities have …
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Games People Play: Identity and Relationships in an Online Role-Playing Game
The following is a study of online relationships and identity formation in Everquest, a multiplayer online role-playing game. Using a phenomenological and reflexive approach, the study seeks to explicate the attractions of this type of online forum, which draws hundreds of thousands of players who …
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Gender Performance and Social Media Platforms: Identity Presentation among Facebook Users in Iraq
… that this offers when they construct their online identities and use social media in their daily interactions. The study mainly investigates the issues of negotiating and presenting identity in online environments and the variations that occur in the participants’ enactment of the …
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R00ting the Ingroup: Anonymous and Social Identities in the Digital Sector
<p>In this dissertation, the author examines the online hacking collective, Anonymous to determine if Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorization Theory are transferable to the digital sector. The case study utilizes semi-structured interviews to determine how members of the collective …
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Unraveling Internet identities : accountability & anonymity at the application layer
… that increasing the anonymity of Internet identities necessitates diminishing their accountability, and vice-versa. This thesis argues that by implementing accountability mechanisms and anonymity protections at the application layer of the Internet, rather than the network layer, it is …
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Understanding lesbian fandom: a case study of the Xena: Warrior Princess (XSTT) lesbian internet fans
… Xena: Warrior Princess (X: WP) and a dedicated online fandom „xenasubtexttalk‟ (XSTT) of diverse lesbian fan membership gained empowerment and agency through their fan practices. Since the screening of the television fantasy series X: WP (1995-2001), there has been a marked increase in academic …
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Branded on Instagram: Navigating Co-created Aesthetics and Narratives through Critical Fashion Identity Practice
… role in forging social connections and shaping online identities. Central to this investigation is a concept I have labelled the aesthetic-narrative imagination (ANI) principle, a novel analytical framework designed to illuminate the complex social and cultural forces at play as users engage …
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Influenced: Performing Gender and Femininity in Mormon and Evangelical Online Spaces
… of a digital self is fully performative; online identities are simultaneously highly curated, edited, and uniquely personal. These spaces allow users to become producers of identity and religious narrative. In this dissertation I examine the online communities which are a dynamic and …
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Towards a mobile application to aid law enforcement in diagnosing and preventing mobile bully-victim behaviour in Eastern Free State High Schools of South Africa
… cannot be found due to their concealed online identities. Furthermore, this study made possible the surveillance of mobile bully-victims through the M-BRS, which provided the police some control to reducing the mobile bully-victim behaviour. This study provided a practical way for …
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A study of Myspace and Facebook from the perspectives of uses and gratification and impression management
… and diverse ways of presenting one's self online. Though there are some evident differences between online and face-to-face social interaction, it is clear that Goffman's theories will continue to help researchers explain self-presentation within the context of SNS.</p>
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The gendered body in virtual space : sexuality, performance and play in four Second Life spaces
… and spatial practices of gendered and sexual identities within ‘Second Life’ spaces. As is typical of the internet, sexual freedom is a given, yet representational performance (how one appears through their embodied avatar) is predicated on significations from the corporeal. So, within …