When I Die, I Feel Small: Electronic Game Characters and the Social Self
In: Journal of broadcasting & electronic media: an official publication of the Broadcast Education Association, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 241-258
ISSN: 1550-6878
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In: Journal of broadcasting & electronic media: an official publication of the Broadcast Education Association, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 241-258
ISSN: 1550-6878
In: New Media & Society, S. 146144482097719
ISSN: 1461-7315
This study examined how self-presentation on social media influences the way people view themselves. It also examined whether that varies with sites using two temporal features: posts which have a short life (ephemeral) and those which live indefinitely (permanent). Drawing on both the notion of public commitment and self-symbolizing, our experiment provided a critical test of two rival theory-driven hypotheses—one suggesting a greater internalization of presented self on permanent rather than ephemeral social media and the other suggesting the opposite pattern. Supporting the self-symbolizing perspective, those who publicly presented themselves on ephemeral social media internalized their portrayed personality. Also, such a difference in internalization between the two conditions was triggered by an introverted self-presentation. Results suggest that ephemerality enhances self-symbolizing efforts and the subsequent internalization by affording nonstrategic self-presentation and reducing impression management concerns. Implications for understanding self-concept change in social media contexts are discussed.
In: Korean Journal of International Relations, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 261-286
ISSN: 2713-6868
In: DES-D-24-01816
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