Can you see the real me?

Can you see the real me? – The Who, (Quadrophenia)

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By: Michelle Truax

Or retouch: the voice,

the flesh, the face, the body.

-The Flight From Conversation

Texting and e-mail and posting let us present

the self we want to be.

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This means we can edit. And if we wish to,

we can delete.

and also mask our identity.- The Social Psychology of the Selfie

One of the differences between our self-image in real life and online is more ability to

change our look,

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more appealing

than what the image actually looks like, let alone what the naked eye would've seen. -The Social Psychology of the Selfie

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Filters make any photo look

in the mirror versus a regular photo is different. The mirror shows a reverse view, but also shows you alive and with movement. - The Social Psychology of the Selfie

How we see ourselves

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Technology has also allowed us to shape who we are

and highlight specific features in ways we couldn't do as easily offline.

-The Social Psychology of the Selfie

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Even when a person posts a photo of you on social media, you can untag, delete or

modify the photo to keep social presence more consistent

with the self image you want others to see

-The Social Psychology of the Selfie

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"This may mean routine photoshopping to create a more 'likeable' self, or simply choosing photos that seem more like

the visual self we want to present” -Dr. Letamendi, (The Social Psychology of the Selfie)

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“Instagram has become more popular and I do think the ability to photos very easily does play a role” -Dr Leaver (‘Selfies’)

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manipulate

Virtual environments

allow individuals to dramatically alter their

self-representation.

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“With more and more of our lives being lived both in the physical

and virtual worlds, it's important to understand the kinds of

impressions we give off to others

through the traces we leave behind in our environments,"

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Source: From bullying to relationships

the anonymity of the internet enables people the opportunity to

take on various personas, even a different gender, and to express

facets of themselves without

fear of disapproval and sanctions by those in their real-life social circle.

Source: Can you see the Real Me?

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when asked to show us a photograph that was

liked

(The secret life of teens)

but would never be displayed

at home, one teenage

girl retrieved her profile photograph

on Facebook

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what people are embarrassed about is when pictures get spread outside of the circle of people you want to see them” – Professor Stratton, (Selfies)

“I think

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Internet interaction settings do facilitate expression of the true self for the average person in an initial meeting with a stranger. –McKenna, (Relationship

Formation)

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In Harter’s view, a perceived ‘discrepancy’ between the performance

of one’s ‘real self ’and

the given ‘ideal self ’ is found to lower self-worth in that domain.

(The secret life of teens)

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close relationshipsin Internet rather than face-to-face interaction settings are more likely to form

with people met on the Internet -McKenna (Relation Formation)

Those who are better able to express their

“true selves”

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coupled with the medium’s ability

to support selective self- presentation make

deception an easy and convenient strategy for image construction

Source: (Looks and Lies)

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The malleable nature of self-presentational elements in online dating profiles

(The secret life of teens)

The teens presented themselves differently at

home to their family than they did to their friends

online.

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A ‘generational digital divide’

which has opened up as a

result of hidden teen behaviours on the

internet(The secret life of teens)

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...researchers found that although people can make consistent judgments about

a player's personality, those

how the players view themselves. (From bullying to relationships)impressions do not match

World of Warcraft

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Representation is a three-part relationship between object, image and society. - David Zeitlyn

(Representation/Self-Representation)

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we are inevitably telling those

around us something about

who we are as individuals."

(The secret life of teens)

"Whether we're creating a screen name or avatar for ourselves, or broadcasting that the bar or coffee shop down the street is one of our frequent hangouts,

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We urgently need new paradigms of representation

to ground the discipline between the extremes of

‘‘anything goes

relativism’’ and ‘‘simple minded

realism’’David Zeitlyn (Representation/Self-Representation)

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Credits and References All images were sourced from Flickr’s Creative Commons with Attribution Licence and Attribution-Non Commercial License. Artists are referenced at the bottom right of each slide. Quotes were sourced from the following supplied Film 260 required readings and from accredited internet articles and studies.

• Can You See the Real Me? Activation and Expression of the “true Self” on the Internet. John A. Bargh, Katelyn Y.A. McKenna, Grainne M. Fitzsimons.New York University. Journal of Social Issues. Vol 58, No 1. 2002.

http://www.jrichardstevens.com/articles/McKenna- onlinerelation.pdf• From bullying to relationships: Mapping our online communications. esciencenews. Psychology & Sociology. January 2013.

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/01/20/from.bullying.relationships.mapping.our.online.communications• Looks and Lies: The Role of Physical Attractiveness in Online Dating Self-Presentation and Deception. By Catalina L. Toma, Jeffrey T.

Hancock. Communication Research. 2010.http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/tmp/10426179137590187170.pdf

• QUADROPHENIA “CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME?”. TheWho.com, December 2012.http://thewho.com/story/quadrophenia-can-you-see-the-real-me-documentary-digital-release-u-s-only-2/

• Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction? Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, Amie S. Green, Marci E.J. Gleason. New York University. Journal of Social Issues. Vol. 58 No.1 2002. http://www.jrichardstevens.com/articles/McKenna-onlinerelation.pdf

• Representation=Self-representation: A Tale of Two Portraits; or, Portraits and Social Science Representations. By David Zeitlyn. Visual Anthropology. 2010 http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/tmp/18142021755246435535.pdf

• 'Selfies' just as much for the insecure as show-offs. By Jillian McHugh. WAtoday. April 2013• The Flight From Conversation. Sherry Turkle. The New York Times. April 2012.• The Proteus Effect implications of Transformed Digital Self-Representation on Online and Offline Behaviour. By Nick Yee, Jeremy N.

Bailenson, Nicolas Ducheneaut. Standford University, Palo Alto Research Center. Communication Research, Sage Publications. April 2009.

• The secret life of teens: online versus offline photographic displays at home. By Abigail Durrant et. al. Visual Studies. June 2011. http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/tmp/528973603491654246.pdf

• The Social Psychology of the Selfie. By Christine Erickson. Mashable. February 2013.

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