Identity under Construction

Donoso, Verónica; Ribbens, Wannes

doi:10.1080/17482798.2010.510011

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“…Social media give adolescents ample opportunity to learn how to present themselves by adjusting and optimizing their online profiles in a way that elicits positive feedback from their peers (Donoso & Ribbens, 2010;Ellison, Heino, & Gibbs, 2004;. In addition, social media are typically designed to stimulate positive feedback on one another's selves, in particular through comments and likes on messages and photos.…”

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Adolescents’ comments in social media: Why do adolescents receive negative feedback and who is most at risk?

Koutamanis

Vossen

Valkenburg

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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Adolescents’ comments in social media: Why do adolescents receive negative feedback and who is most at risk?

Koutamanis

Vossen

Valkenburg

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…Social media are very attractive to early adolescents and adolescents because they fulfill some of the main developmental tasks of this age, primarily the need for social interaction with peers (Davis, 2012(Davis, , 2013Schwartz, 2012) and identity management, showing the positive aspects of oneself and hiding the negative ones (Uhls et al, 2017). Through social media, they can consolidate their sense of belonging to the peer group and defining their identity through a self-disclosure process that is facilitated by the mediation of the device, as well as by the asynchronicity and accessibility of online communication (Donoso and Ribbens, 2010;Valkenburg and Peter, 2011).…”

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Social Media, Depressive Symptoms and Well-Being in Early Adolescence. The Moderating Role of Emotional Self-Efficacy and Gender

2021

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The study of the psychological effects of social media use on adolescents’ adjustment has long been the focus of psychological research, but results are still inconclusive. In particular, there is a lack of research on the positive and negative developmental outcomes and on possible moderating variables, especially concerning early adolescence. To fill these gaps in literature, the present study longitudinally investigated the relationships between social media use, depressive symptoms, affective well-being and life satisfaction, as well as the moderating role of emotional self-efficacy and gender. The study involved 336 Italian early adolescents (mean age = 13, sd = 0.3; 48% girls) who completed an anonymous self-report questionnaire twice within a year. Main results showed that higher social media use was related to higher depressive symptoms, lower affective well-being and lower life satisfaction among girls with lower emotional self-efficacy. Conversely, high social media use was related to higher affective well-being and higher life satisfaction for girls with higher emotional self-efficacy. Results are discussed in relation to their implications for risk prevention and health promotion among early adolescents. In particular, our results suggest that promoting emotional self-efficacy can be very helpful in making the use of social media an opportunity for well-being and life satisfaction rather than a developmental risk.

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“…In 2009, 30% of Chilean households had access to internet connections (Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones [SUBTEL], 2016); by 2017, this figure had ballooned to 87%, with smartphones as the main device for internet connections (SUBTEL, 2018). Chilean teenagers eagerly adopted photo blogging sites in early 2000 and by 2008, Chile had the most Fotolog accounts worldwide (4.8 million), used mostly to establish, build, and present identities for themselves and relative to their peers (Donoso & Ribbens, 2010).…”

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“You Need At Least One Picture Daily, if Not, You’re Dead”: Content Creators and Platform Evolution in the Social Media Ecology

Arriagada

Ibáñez

2020

Social Media + Society

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Despite extensive literature on content creators’ identities, strategies, and activities, there remains a gap in understanding how the constantly changing platform environment impacts their brand subjectivities. Against this backdrop, our article explores how evolutions in platforms—including constant updates to their affordances—shape the activities and interpretive processes of content creators. Drawing on interviews with 35 Chilean content creators in the field of fashion and lifestyle, along with an analysis of their Instagram images ( N = 165) and stories ( N = 150), we show how creators feel compelled to enact different versions of their brand subjectivities. Our findings show how creators experience platform changes based on three interrelated levels: in the form of communicative styles, as a sense of temporal acceleration, and as a constant negotiation with other actors in the social network through which commercial activities are configured. Thus, when platforms tend to make changes to improve their commercial viability, content creators have to adapt their brand subjectivities and practices across platforms and affordances. In addition to shedding light on the new routines and intensified economic pressures demanded of today’s digital workers, we also reveal how the ideal of creation has been supplanted with intensified competition amid constantly changing technological, social, and commercial ecologies.

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Identity under Construction

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Adolescents’ comments in social media: Why do adolescents receive negative feedback and who is most at risk?

Adolescents’ comments in social media: Why do adolescents receive negative feedback and who is most at risk?

Social Media, Depressive Symptoms and Well-Being in Early Adolescence. The Moderating Role of Emotional Self-Efficacy and Gender

“You Need At Least One Picture Daily, if Not, You’re Dead”: Content Creators and Platform Evolution in the Social Media Ecology

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