The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Characteristics of Personal Home Pages

By Zizi Papacharissi. 2002

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience (2011, background): “Self-conscious identity performances have been analyzed in internet spaces like social network sites (boyd, 2007; Livingstone, 2005), blogs (Hodkinson and Lincoln, 2008; Reed, 2005), dating sites (Ellison et al., 2006) and personal homepages (Papacharissi, 2002; Schau and Gilly, 2003).”
I'm Going to Instagram It! An Analysis of Athlete Self-Presentation on Instagram (2015, background): “Thus, whereas a person does have control over their self-presentation in offline environments, scholars have argued that this capability is greater in online venues (Caplan, 2005; Gibbs, Ellison, & Heino, 2006; Papacharissi, 2002).”
Social media adoption: The role of media needs and innovation characteristics (2015, background): “…Greenberg (2002) Internet Division entertainment, peer identity, good feelings, coolness, keep informed, communication, sights and sounds, career Papacharissi (2002a) Personal homepage Entertainment, pastime, information, self-expression, professional advancement, communication with friends and…”
The virtual geographies of social networks: a comparative analysis of Facebook, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld (2009, background): “…taking place on a single or multiple stages, and several scholars have applied his dramaturgically influenced theory to self-presentation online via personal homepages (Dominick, 1999; Papacharissi, 2002a, 2002b;Walker, 2000) and via social networking sites (Donath, 2007; Donath and boyd, 2004).”
Personality in cyberspace: personal Web sites as media for personality expressions and impressions. (2006, background): “Response rates in Samples 1 and 2 were higher than in previous research that usually reported rates between 20 and 35% (e.g., Misoch, 2004; Papacharissi, 2002b), whereas Sample 3 fell into that typical range.”
On the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data in Communication and Social Computing Research (2014, methodology): “Two studies of blogs and personal Web pages emphasize hyperlinks’ capacity for self-expression through engagement with individual interests and social identities (Papacharissi, 2002; Trammell & Keshelashvili, 2005; Trammell et al., 2006).”
Showing Off? Human Mobility and the Interplay of Traits, Self-Disclosure, and Facebook Check-Ins (2013, background): “disclose and thus enable users to engage in strategic self-presentation (Papacharissi, 2002; Vazire & Gosling, 2004).”
Expressions of Identity Online: Prominent Features and Gender Differences in Adolescents' World Wide Web Home Pages (2004, methodology): “Content analysis i s being increasingly utilized as a technique for exploring various features and genres on the Internet, such as personal home pages (eg , Bates & Lu, 1997; Dominick, 1999; Haas & Grams, 2000; Papacharissi, 2002a, 2002b).”
Who's Posting Facebook Faux Pas? A Cross-Cultural Examination of Personality Differences (2010, neutral): “Research suggests that users of personal homepages or web sites engage in self-presentation behaviors to influence the impressions others form of them (Dominick, 1999; Papacharissi, 2002; Trammell & Keshelashvili, 2005; Walker, 2000).”
Presentation of self on the Web: an ethnographic study of teenage girls’ weblogs (2005, background): “This had both good and bad consequences: It has made me closer to people I wouldn’t normally talk to in school…like the quiet ones who don’t talk much…if I read their Xanga….”
"Girls are addicted to likes so they post semi-naked selfies": Peer mediation, normativity and the construction of identity online (2015, background): “homepages (Papacharissi, 2002), blogs (Brake, 2012) and social networking sites have been framed as “stages” in the Goffmanian sense.”
Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities (2007, background): “Others (Dominick 1999, Papacharissi 2002, Schau and Gilly 2003, Walker 2000) also argue that identity communication can be accomplished through the use of a personal Web page.”
Understanding the appeal of user-generated media: a uses and gratification perspective (2009, background): “It has been found that authors who view their personal home pages as self-expression tools post more personal information, whereas those who use their pages as professional tools avoid posting personal information online (Papacharissi, 2002).”