Presentation of self on the Web: an ethnographic study of teenage girls’ weblogs

By Denise Bortree. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The pedagogy of regret: Facebook, binge drinking and young women (2012, background): “The literature in this field is now staggering, but samples from a range of disciplines include Manago et al. (2008), Walther et al. (2008), Buffardi and Campbell (2008), Bortree (2005),Walker (2000), Schau and Gilly (2003), Dominick (1999) and Livingstone (2008), who specifically focuses on ‘risk’.”
Sharenting and the extended self: self-representation in parents’ Instagram presentations of their children (2020, background): “…and nonverbal communication (Goffman, 1959), and is driven by goals, with a balance between personal desire for expression of the backstage, personal self-representational version of the self, and the desire to present a version of the self that audiences are perceived to desire (Bortree, 2005).”
Self‐Disclosure in Social Media: Extending the Functional Approach to Disclosure Motivations and Characteristics on Social Network Sites (2014, background): “For example, an ethnographic study of blogs suggests that although bloggers imagined friends as their audience, they were also aware of a general public who could view their content (Bortree, 2005).”
I'm Going to Instagram It! An Analysis of Athlete Self-Presentation on Instagram (2015, background): “Self-presentation tends to be goal-driven (Leary & Kowalski, 1990), thus, as individuals consider how to self-present, they balance both individual goals and the ‘‘self’’ that they perceive the audience desires (Bortree, 2005).”
Follow me and like my beautiful selfies: Singapore teenage girls' engagement in self-presentation and peer comparison on social media (2016, methodology): “With the advent of the Internet and users' ability to construct their own profiles and personas online, Goffman's (1959) theory of self-presentation has been widely used to guide studies about online self-presentation (Bortree, 2005; Dominick, 1999; Stern, 2007).”
Forming digital self and parasocial relationships on YouTube (2016, unknown): “While maintaining a good impression, our findings are similar to previous studies showing that individuals selected ideal or perfect gestures as well as behaviors to be shot (Bortree, 2005).”
Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs (2007, methodology): “, Bortree, 2005; Huffaker & Calvert, 2005; Trammell and Keshelashvili, 2005). Van House (2004) proposes that blogs constitute a communicative genre in which self-disclosure has become part of the norms, as blogging is strongly related to individuality, self-representation, and personal relationships”
Self-Presentation and Interaction in Blogs of Adolescents and Young Emerging Adults (2010, background): “Huffaker and Calvert (2005) found that half of all teenage bloggers in their examination of online identity and language use discussed sexual identity, love relationships, and real or desired boyfriends and girlfriends. More specifically, Subrahmanyam, Smahel, and Greenfield (2006) calculated that m”