Ever changed your style, hobbies, or even your personality because of your feed?
We talk about how the internet quietly shapes our identity on the latest episode of Common Shop Date ๐ง
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Platforms like Instagram and Pinterest become tools for comparison and community, but also create pressure to perform identity based on whatโs visible and valued online.
First-year students use social media to shape identity and find belonging, moving from self-affirmation to fitting in, then integrating their online and offline selves.
Author: Louise Connelly, Nicola Osborne
Publisher: Sheffield Hallam University
Title: Student identities in transition: social media experiences, curation and implications for Higher Education
https://t.co/0TVSLOoSON
The author emphasizes that while college is a time for growth and self-exploration, students now enter with established social media presences that already shape how they see themselves and relate to others.
These online identities influence their academic, social, and professional lives, impacting how they navigate the college experience.
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The tension between visibility and vulnerability shapes how identity is curated online, impacting how others exploring their sexuality understand themselves, often through only part of the story.
Author: Travis Wagner
Publisher: asis&t
https://t.co/eAtYZUM8nj
Social media helps people build their professional identity by blending personal and work selves, but it also creates pressure to manage how you're seen by different audiences
Publisher: SageJournals
Author: Judita Kasperiuniene, Vilma Zydziunaite
#SocialMedia#TikTok#INSTA
Feeling emotionally connected to a certain identity/theme on social media drives people to ue it more while thinking about how they see themselves and are seen by others. This affects how they shop.
This study discusses how two identities shape social media use, relational identity drives repeated use, while social identity fuels variety-seeking behavior.
https://t.co/2jfzlZjeVa
Author: Zhao Pan, Yaobin Lu, Bin Wang & Patrick Y.K. Chau
Title: Who Do You Think You Are? Common and Differential Effects of Social Self-Identity on Social Media Usage
This study explores how online identities are crafted through blogging & self-curation in the digital age. The author highlights the challenges of "context collapse" & the importance of narrative in building online personas. #Infuencer#SelfCurating#Vlogging
Author: Jiaxin Li
Publisher: Pioneer Publisher
Title: The Practice of Social Media in Relation to Identity and Online Self-Curation
https://t.co/L2oYYxMwed