Military Masculinity and the Travails of Transitioning

Semaan, Bryan; Britton, Lauren M.; Dosono, Bryan

doi:10.1145/2998181.2998221

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“…Such research helps provide context for investigations into scholars’ use of social media over time. Some studies note that individuals who go through identity transitions (eg, gender transitions, transitioning from military to civilian life) report using private or anonymous social media spaces during transitional times for the purposes of self‐disclosure and support (Haimson, Bowser, Melcer, & Churchill, ; Semaan, Britton, & Dosono, ). These findings are supported by a 5‐year study of undergraduate students’ use of social media which found an inverse relationship between privacy concerns and self‐disclosure on Facebook (Tsay‐Vogel, Shanahan, & Signorielli, ).…”

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Academics' social media use over time is associated with individual, relational, cultural and political factors

Veletsianos¹,

Johnson²,

Belikov³

2019

Brit J Educational Tech

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The use of social media in academics' lives is well documented; however, researchers have a limited understanding about whether, why and how academics' social media use changes over time. Through interviews with 12 scholars, we identify multiple reasons that lead them to change their use of social media over time. Specifically, scholars report their social media use changing as a result of personal life events; professional transitions; concerns related to online privacy and self‐protection; evolution of technology; their desire to develop and nurture relationships; awareness of the needs of others; and, the political climate. These findings reflect individual desires and broader cultural shifts, indicating that scholars’ use of social media is impacted not just by their individual preferences, but also by forces that impact upon them.

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Section: Review Of Relevant Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Academics' social media use over time is associated with individual, relational, cultural and political factors

Veletsianos¹,

Johnson²,

Belikov³

2019

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…However, many people's identities are not static. A large body of social computing literature has shown the ways that social media sites introduce challenges in interacting online and presenting changing identities during life transitions such as relationship breakups and divorce [38,59,71], job loss [18], transition into and out of military cultures [29,75,76], pregnancy loss [4], and death in one's network [15].…”

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Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

Haimson

2018

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Social media, and people's online self-presentations and social networks, add complexity to people's experiences managing changing identities during life transitions. I use gender transition as a case study to understand how people experience liminality on social media. I qualitatively analyzed data from transition blogs on Tumblr (n=240), a social media blogging site on which people document their gender transitions, and in-depth interviews with transgender bloggers (n=20). I apply ethnographer van Gennep's liminality framework to a social media context and contribute a new understanding of liminality by arguing that reconstructing one's online identity during life transitions is a rite of passage. During life transitions, people present multiple identities simultaneously on different social media sites that together comprise what I call social transition machinery. Social transition machinery describes the ways that, for people facing life transitions, multiple social media sites and networks often remain separate, yet work together to facilitate life transitions. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing~HCI theory, concepts and models • Human-centered computing~Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms • Human-centered computing~Social media • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing

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“…A limited body of research has examined why transitioning populations sometimes withdraw from social technology use. Semaan and colleagues [38] found that, in the context of veteran transitions, some veterans discontinued use of social media when they observed other veterans violating the pro-social cultural logics they drew upon while in the military. Lingel and colleagues [27] found that transnational migrants can experience fatigue from social media and disconnect from their old networks, such as on Facebook.…”

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“…transitioning into and out of the military [12,38,39], job changes [8,10], transition from incarceration to citizen life [35], immigration [26], transition into older adulthood [5], coming to terms with a death in one's network [7], and gender transition [18,20,21]. Although social technologies can be beneficial during life changes, people also face many challenges using social technologies during transitional life periods [8,11,12,18,21,23,30,36].…”

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Life Transitions and Social Technologies

Haimson

Semaan

Dym

et al. 2019

Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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When people experience major changes in their lives (e.g., relationship changes, transition from high school to college, realizing an LGBTQ identity, etc.), they often turn to social technologies to help navigate shifting identities and networks and find support and resources. People's experiences using social technologies during times of life transition, and how to better design such technologies, has been a major focus of social computing research. This workshop will gather researchers working in this space to discuss eight themes: life events vs. processes; changing identities; multiple overlapping life events; physical and digital transitions; technology non-use during life transitions; liminality framework; theoretical frames; and methodological considerations. Collaboratively, we will 1) synergize insights from workshop organizers' and participants' research to determine how social technologies can be designed to better support people during life transitions and 2) outline an agenda for the future of social computing work on life transitions.

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Military Masculinity and the Travails of Transitioning

Cited by 56 publications

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Academics' social media use over time is associated with individual, relational, cultural and political factors

Academics' social media use over time is associated with individual, relational, cultural and political factors

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