Me, Myself, & Identity Online: Identity Salience on Facebook vs Non-Virtual Identity

<p>Many Social Networking Sites have come and gone over the past decade, but Facebook continues to grow in popularity. Facebook is designed to connect people to one another through virtual networks of “friends” where members participate in the presentation of self virtually- through profile creation, maintenance, and exchanges of content. Social Networking Sites create a location for identity formation and projection that is similar, yet distinct, from face-to-face interactions. Facebook offers a unique avenue for people to control their presentation of self, while maintaining reflexive features. This study this study explores the notion of a particular “Facebook role” while specifically addressing front stage projections in relation to backstage information and the resulting differences in identity. In effect, people are “themselves” on Facebook, just a consistently “good” version of themselves.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Delise, Nathalie N

Contributors dc:contributor

• D'Lane R. Compton
• Vern Baxter
• Susan S. Mann

• Facebook
• Identity
• Technology
• Presentation of Self
• Online Interaction
• Social Networking Sites
• Communication Technology and New Media
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Social Psychology and Interaction
• Sociology of Culture

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1431

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2487