Social Media “Teleco-presence” Theory of Identity
Keywords:
Social Media, Theory, Trust, Identity, Teleco-presenceAbstract
This paper examines the issue of social media interpersonal human interactions. The onslaught of social networking sites on the Internet for inter-human synchronous and asynchronous communication has revolutionized interactive communication. The fragmentation of audiences from the cultural, gender, class, race and value perspectives has complicated a unique theoretical dimension for understanding these forms of communications on social media. This paper attempts to conceptualize a theoretical benchmark for understanding identity formation when it comes to interpersonal communication level.
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Rimskii, V. (2011). The influence of the Internet on active social involvement and the formation and development of identities. Russian Social Science Review, 52(1), 79-101.
Rosenberry, J. (2011). Users support online anonymity despite increased negativity. Newspaper Research Journal, 3(2), 6-19.
Salah, A.A., Manovich, L., Salah, A.A., Chow, J. (2013). Combining cultural analytics and networks analysis: Studying a social network site with user-generated content. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 57(3), 409-426.
Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (2013). Searchable signatures: Context and the struggle for recognition. Information Technology and Libraries, 5-19.
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Toxen, B. (2014). The NSA and Snowden: Securing the all-seeing eye. Communication of the ACM, 57(5), 44-51.
Watkins, S. C. (2010). The young and the digital. Beacon Press.
Warren, J., Stoerger, S., & Kelley, K. (2012). Longitudinal gender and age bias in a prominent amateur new media community. New Media and Society, 14(1), 7-17.
Zhao, S. (2004). Consociated contemporaries as an emergent realm of the lifeworld: Extending Schutz’s phenomenological analysis to cyberspace. Human Science, 27(1), 91-105.
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