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Anonymity and Authenticity on the Web: Towards a new framework in internet onomastics
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Creating a Self-Image : Face-Work and Identity Construction Online
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Creating a Self-Image : Face-Work and Identity Construction Online
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Abstract:
© 2020 Dr. Saskia Kersten, Dr. Netaya Lotze. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). ; In this article, we build on research arguing that linguistic self-representation on social media can be viewed as a form of face-work and that the strategies employed by users are influenced by both a desire to connect with others and a need to preserve privacy. Drawing on our own analyses of usernames as well as that of others which were conducted as part of a large-scale project investigating usernames in 14 languages (Schlobinski/T. Siever 2018a), we argue that these conflicting goals of wanting to be recognised as an authentic member of an in-group while retaining a degree of anonymity are also observable in the choice of username. Online self-naming can thus be viewed as a key practice in the debate of face-work on social media platforms, because names and naming strategies can be studied more readily than broader and more complex aspects, such as stylistic variation or text-image interdependence, while at the same time forming part of these. ; Peer reviewed
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digitally mediated interaction; face-work; Language and Linguistics; onomastics; self-naming; usernames
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2299/22955 http://dp.jfml.org/2019/opr-kersten-lotze-creating-a-self-image/
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