Exploring situationally inappropriate social media posts

Richey, Michelle; Ravishankar, M. N.; Coupland, Christine

doi:10.1108/itp-03-2015-0045

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“…Algorithms also selectively curate what can be viewed. These circumstances increase the possibility that information from one life domain may spill over into another (Richey et al 2016;French and Read 2013). In concert these bits of information help to infer what a person is like (Utz 2010).…”

Section: Professional Self-presentations On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A classic example is that of the employee who posts disparaging remarks about their boss on social media, only to be fired when the boss finds those posts (LaFerla 2006). Different cultural and organisational contexts render different behaviours contextually inappropriate, making it very challenging for individuals to anticipate the standards by which their posts might be scrutinized (Richey et al 2016). If the social cues that inform interaction and behaviour are not visible or if they are misjudged then inappropriate posts can be made visible to colleagues, altering their perceptions of an individual (Richey et al 2016;Spottswood and Hancock 2017).…”

Section: Professional Self-presentations On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Different cultural and organisational contexts render different behaviours contextually inappropriate, making it very challenging for individuals to anticipate the standards by which their posts might be scrutinized (Richey et al 2016). If the social cues that inform interaction and behaviour are not visible or if they are misjudged then inappropriate posts can be made visible to colleagues, altering their perceptions of an individual (Richey et al 2016;Spottswood and Hancock 2017). Indeed, multiple contradictory selves can seem to exist in a Bfragmented electronically mediated environment^ (Vaast 2007).…”

Section: Professional Self-presentations On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As information seeps across digital networks it becomes more difficult to control impressions cultivated by social media. The negative inferences associated with contextually inappropriate personal posts can have serious consequences for individuals and organisations (Richey et al 2016). For instance, Justine Sacco became infamous for a distasteful joke on her personal Twitter account, posted as she boarded a plane for a holiday in South Africa.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Judgements can be informed by personal profiles, posts about out of work activities and information or pictures posted by other people (Neeley and Leonardi 2016). The ubiquity of the internet and the interconnectedness of social media networks mean that professional and social boundaries are blurred, resulting in a spill over of information from one life domain to another (French and Read 2013;Richey et al 2016). As information seeps across digital networks it becomes more difficult to control impressions cultivated by social media.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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In addition to their professional social media accounts, individuals are increasingly using their personal profiles and casual posts to communicate their identities to work colleagues. They do this in order to 'stand out from the crowd' and to signal attributes that are difficult to showcase explicitly in a work setting. Existing studies have tended to treat personal posts viewed in a professional context as a problem, since they can threaten impression management efforts. These accounts focus on the attempts of individuals to separate their life domains on social media. In contrast, we present the narratives of professional IT workers in India who intentionally disrupt the boundaries between personal and professional profiles in order to get noticed by their employers. Drawing on the dramaturgical vocabulary of Goffman (1959) we shed light on how individuals cope with increased levels of self-disclosure on social media. We argue that their self-presentations can be likened to post-modern performances in which the traditional boundaries between actor and audience are intentionally unsettled. These casual posts communicate additional personal traits that are not otherwise included in professional presentations. Since there are no strict boundaries between formal front-stage and relaxed back-stage regions in these types of performance, a liminal mental state is often used, which enables a better assessment of the type of information to present on social media.

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Section: Professional Self-presentations On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%