Social Network Identity: Facebook, Twitter and Identity Negotiation Theory

Kaskazi, Amana

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Title

Social Network Identity: Facebook, Twitter and Identity Negotiation Theory

Author(s)

Kaskazi, Amana

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• identity
• social networks
• communication
• representation
• trust

Abstract

"The use of social networking sites (SNS) has had implications in traditional areas of communication such as identity and relationship construction. This study explores how identity is expressed on Facebook and Twitter, the top two most trafficked SNS (Brenner, 2013). Specifically, this study reports the finding of a survey of young adults who use these sites. Respondents were asked questions about what prompts them to choose how they express their identity on Facebook and how/if it differs from identity expression using Twitter. In addition this study examines how Facebook and Twitter can be understood through the sociological theory of identity negotiation. Implications for the connection between social digital identity and ""catfishing"" are provided and discussed."

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47365

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14276

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