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Accomplishing authenticity in a labor-exposing space
- Source :
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Computers in Human Behavior . Sep2012, Vol. 28 Issue 5, p1966-1973. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Abstract: 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 (). 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. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07475632
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77731744
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.017