Jana Vanessa Kruck, et al. "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus? Examining Gender Differences In Self-Presentation On Social Networking Sites." Cyber psychology, Behavior And Social Networking 15.2 (2012): 91-98. MEDLINE. Web. 08 Mar. 2013.
This article is about to comparing how both genders go about and view self-presentation on social networks. From Profile Pictures, different groups, and virtual boards created to make propped representations of themselves. How men and Women have different desires and motives of their usage. Studies were conducted that said women tend to use social network for more comparing themselves with others and to find information, Men are more likely to use social networking sites to look at other profiles to find friends. Psychological research has been done and it said women place higher priority on creating a positive image.
Originally published in New Rochelle NY, through Mary Ann Liebert inc. The authors of the article are Haferkamp N, Eimter SC; Papadakiss AM; Kruck JV. From the department of Media and Communication Dresdon University of Technology, Dresdon Germany.
Definitely gained some insight, it really does make sense that women tend to use Social Networking Sites for a more comparative view because females really put a whole lot more time into their pictures , their poses etc. It helps shape my point because they are doing what is necessary to look best on the Social Networks whether they look or act like that in real life and men aren’t as into it for the most part, they are but don’t put the extra time into it that women do. Wanted to know a lot more, didn’t really feel like it gave me enough info or the amount of info it should have given me.
Gwendolyn, Seidman. "Self-Presentation And Belonging On Facebook: How Personality Influences Social Media Use And Motivations." Personality And Individual Differences 54.(n.d.): 402-407. Science Direct. Web. 08 Mar. 2013.
The article was on a group that took a survey about Facebook, 184 undergrad college students on the high assessing personality and behaviors and motivations on Facebook. Good amounts were to communicate with others. Self-presentational behaviors and motivations were best predicted by low conscientiousness and high neuroticism. Were obsessed with the fact to almost prove their worth, so what might look out of character of them is actually themselves that they just don’t present out in public, more so hiding it in public but releasing it over the social network proving there “worth” or that “they belong”. The others who presented low conscientiousness we’re almost you can say afraid to show a bad image of themselves. So they were extremely careful with what they picked to go on Facebook.
This source is reliable because it was taken from The Psychology department of Albright college in Philadelphia PA. So they would have a guarantee liability because of the fact that it is a college. Published by Elsevier Ltd, and written by Gwendolyn Seidman who has more articles in relation to the cyber world.
I feel like the article was a good one and gave a view of the average private social network user and the average flamboyant social network user. How one may to go to the extreme to be known and the other may really have a safe-hold or security system to say of what they release or put on the internet. Was a good article still feel like it could have brought the reader in more.
Marwick, AE, and D Boyd. "I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, And The Imagined Audience." New Media & Society 13.1 (n.d.): 114-133. Social Sciences Citation Index. Web. 09 Mar. 2013.
Self-commodification what the article is about, how twitter user promote themselves to appeal to others for the follow. What avenues they take and who they are reaching with their approaches. How they maintained authentic with all their followers for them to keep following. The fact that some of these twitter users basically look at themselves as micro-celebrities, very strategic.
The source is from New Media and Society, which has a lot of other relating articles. Good Source gave insight on a specific “Twitter personality”. I feel like this article is very trustworthy in the fact that it wasn’t overly trying convincing or giving excess information but just right. The author Marwick, AE did a good job of relating to how some “Twitter users” think of themselves.
Overall good source, in my opinion best one yet was short but at the same time got right down to what was important. The imagery it created was flawless because as you read you can really imagine those people that “act” on Twitter and almost really do feel like they are in another world on Twitter and are celebrities.
Christopher J., Carpenter. "Narcissism On Facebook: Self-Promotional And Anti-Social Behavior." Personality And Individual Differences 52.(n.d.): 482-486. ScienceDirect. Web. 09 Mar. 2013.
The article represented Self-Promotion and Anti-social behaviors very well. The comparison of Anti-social and Self-promotional are a very similar, more than you would imagine. It talks about how they basically feed off of each other, and also ties in self-esteem issues. In feeding off each other somebody might post pictures out of promotional use, but might get mad that not enough people like it. Seeking social behavior cues that aren’t being given in reality so looks for ‘highs” on the amount of likes one may get on a paper.
Taken from Department of Communication of Western Illinois University, written by Christopher J. Carpenter may be a reliable source but I don’t really feel like it was that good of a source. It gave good information but the information was too intertwine with one another should have separated.
Overall it proved its purpose in the fact that it showed how both topics in the article can rub off of the other in the sense that everything is almost a domino effect or action and reaction type of situation. Didn’t really like this one as much gave significant information but it didn’t individually represent each as well as it should have.
Reflection
This research work I would say has more so inspired my topic even more, it worked good with my topic in in the different views and areas of information I will write about. It gave me some information that I probably wouldn’t have put into my paper but since I have come across it, I will add it. It definitely just gave me a different perspective of how people personality and personas go way deeper than you could ever imagine. I never looked at it from the standpoint of that might be them in reality they just don’t show it when you are face to face but feel more comfortable showing it on social networks. It totally was just a complete turnaround from I would usually think, which would be that people are just putting up a fake persona for the social network but it really could be there personality.
I can probably refine it in certain areas just to give more insight and details on how it may go deeper than just what we see it might be people have certain disorders. “Different perceptions, images and self-promotion that goes on in Social Networking” is my topic, the information found and covered in these sources will be used because they relate in many ways to my Inquiry Project topic. The gender views give a stand point from both so it works even though everybody is different but I feel like for the majority that gender analysis was legit and is reliable.
One question I have now is how often or what is the average amount of people that try to enhance their pictures or promote themselves on social network? At first I realized people do it but as I started to observe I didn’t realize how many people do it just to gain that popularity through a network that isn’t a reality or isn’t factual, because so many pictures are very deceiving and can lead people on, even fake pictures often surface just look at the new T.V. show Cat Fish. The show views online relationships and better than half of the episodes have somebody was lien somehow or someway about themselves.