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Technoself-Presentation on Social Networks: A Gender-Based Approach

Technoself-Presentation on Social Networks: A Gender-Based Approach
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Author(s): Antonio García-Gómez (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rocci Luppicini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2211-1.ch021

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Abstract

This chapter examines social networking sites from a sociological and discursive perspective in order to highlight how users engage with them in the construction of their identities. In order to do so it focuses on the different strategies users of Facebook take advantage of in order both to construct their gender identity and control the way they self-represent. The results shed light on the range of identity claims both men and women tend to make in a non-anonymous online setting. In addition, this study aims to increase understanding of identity construction in the online environment in general and gender identity construction in particular.

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