Faceted identity, faceted lives

Farnham, Shelly; Churchill, Elizabeth F.

doi:10.1145/1958824.1958880

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“…For example, the theory of faceted social identity in sociology states that people behave differently with different groups. Users communicate with different categories of relationships online [57]. Users present identities depending on who they are communicating with and seek different types of support.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction Patterns of Nurturant Support Exchanged in Online Health Social Networking

Chuang¹,

Yang²

2012

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundExpressing emotion in online support communities is an important aspect of enabling e-patients to connect with each other and expand their social resources. Indirectly it increases the amount of support for coping with health issues. Exploring the supportive interaction patterns in online health social networking would help us better understand how technology features impacts user behavior in this context.ObjectiveTo build on previous research that identified different types of social support in online support communities by delving into patterns of supportive behavior across multiple computer-mediated communication formats. Each format combines different architectural elements, affecting the resulting social spaces. Our research question compared communication across different formats of text-based computer-mediated communication provided on the MedHelp.org health social networking environment.MethodsWe identified messages with nurturant support (emotional, esteem, and network) across three different computer-mediated communication formats (forums, journals, and notes) of an online support community for alcoholism using content analysis. Our sample consisted of 493 forum messages, 423 journal messages, and 1180 notes.ResultsNurturant support types occurred frequently among messages offering support (forum comments: 276/412 messages, 67.0%; journal posts: 65/88 messages, 74%; journal comments: 275/335 messages, 82.1%; and notes: 1002/1180 messages, 84.92%), but less often among messages requesting support. Of all the nurturing supports, emotional (ie, encouragement) appeared most frequently, with network and esteem support appearing in patterns of varying combinations. Members of the Alcoholism Community appeared to adapt some traditional face-to-face forms of support to their needs in becoming sober, such as provision of encouragement, understanding, and empathy to one another.ConclusionsThe computer-mediated communication format may have the greatest influence on the supportive interactions because of characteristics such as audience reach and access. Other factors include perception of community versus personal space or purpose of communication. These results lead to a need for further research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction Patterns of Nurturant Support Exchanged in Online Health Social Networking

Chuang¹,

Yang²

2012

J Med Internet Res

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“…In particular, the practice of taking and sharing photographs online has been noted as a key method for expression of one's self and identity in digital contexts [14,25,32]. An individual's identity can have a number of facets, depending on the content of the digital possessions in question, or depending on the social or communication platform in use [8]. The varying facets of an individual's identity can be understood by considering Goffman's concept of 'the performance of self' [13], where an individual will craft and 'perform' different curated representations of their identity, adapting them to be appropriate for different audiences.…”

Section: Digital Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Decoupling and Disentangling

Herron

Moncur

Hoven

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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Romantic relationships are often facilitated through digital technologies, such as social networking sites and communication services, and 'digital possessions', such as messages sent to mobile devices and photos shared through social media. When individuals break up, digitally disconnecting can be facilitated by using those digital technologies and managing or curating these digital possessions. This research explores the break up stories of 13 individuals aged between 18 and 52. The aim of this work is to inform the design of systems focused on supporting individuals to decouple and disentangle digitally in the wake of a break up. Four areas of interest emerged from the data: communication, using digital possessions, managing digital possessions, and experiences of technology. Opportunities for design were identified in decoupling and disconnecting, designing around guilt, and promoting reflection to enable curation.

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“…While people present fragmented identities to different social groups (Farnham & Churchill, 2011), the fragmentation of personal data is service-based, not identity-based. Thus, an essential component of moving identity interfaces forward is to bring together service-fragmented data, which will enable research in this domain to continue.…”

Section: Identity Interfaces: Virtual Possessions and Selfreflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, social relationship data such as tie strength and life facet (Farnham & Churchill, 2011) from the previous chapters are examples of personal inferences.…”

Section: Personal Inferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%