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Race and the beauty premium: Mechanical Turk workers' evaluations of Twitter accounts.
- Source :
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Information, Communication & Society . May2019, Vol. 22 Issue 5, p709-716. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Race, gender, and physical attractiveness strongly affect perceptions of trustworthiness and subsequent face-to-face interactions. This study examines how social media users' perceived gender, race, and physical attractiveness can impact their standing online. We test these broad hypotheses by having Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers evaluate a sample of 816 Twitter accounts. Our results show a 'beauty premium,' where MTurk workers say they are more likely to follow Twitter accounts with attractive proļ¬le photos, and attractive photos are positively associated with evaluations of trust. However, very attractive Black male and female Twitter accounts are associated with lower evaluations of trust compared to their White counterparts. These findings suggest that social media users' social characteristics, perceived from their username or profile image, can replicate offline inequality online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIAL media
*RACE
*PERSONAL beauty
*GENDER differences (Sociology)
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1369118X
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Information, Communication & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135147241
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1543443