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Page 1: Self Expression, the Internet, and Risk Taking

Self Expression, the Internet, and Risk Taking

By Josh and E.J.

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What is this?

• Self expression– How one expresses themselves on social

networking sites.

• Risk Taking– The risk in sharing information

on the Internet.

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Private vs. Public

• The Internet is public.

• Can profiles be private?

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Generation Gap

• Older generation considers age, political stance, religion, sexual preference to be private

• Younger generation considers these facts to be basic information that doesn’t “give anyone too big a picture.”

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Age Gap

• Age differences:– Younger teens use profiles to show off personality– Exemplified by MySpace and noisy backgrounds– “all about me”

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Age Gap

• Age differences continued– Older teens use simpler profiles to demonstrate

social connections– Facebook– Friends list is more important

than your personality– About connectedness, not

“all about me”

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Oversimplified Options

• Internet forces binary choice on privacy• Contacts are either “friends” or not• Is this an accurate representation of complex

social ties of information and trust?

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Online Risks

• Consequences of sharing too much• “stranger danger” & pedophiles• Identity theft

• Emotional vulnerability– Cyber bullying– Hostile commenting by strangers (divorce,

anorexic supporters)

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Potential Benefits

• Is this risk worth it?• Useful to have a support network, net good

for the people seeking help

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Safety Measures

• Not actually that exposed to complete strangers

• Most social networking reinforces existing relationships

• Just “offline” and “online” no longer “captures the complex practices”

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On the Internet

• Many of the previous points center around artifacts from using the internet as a medium– Binary nature of social network “friends”– public/private divide

• The anorexia example defines new possibilities due to the internet, how the younger generations are discovering positive ways to use the internet

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Works Cited• (2010a) Bebo.• Boyd, Danah. 2008. “Why Youth Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked

Publics in Teenage Social Life.” Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.• (2010b) Facebook.• Gross, R. and Acquisti, A. 2005. Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social

Networks.• Livingstone, S. 2008. “Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation:

teenagers’ use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression.” New Media Society 10(3):393-411

• (2010c) MySpace.• Smith, D. 2009. ‘Web hit touches a chord with anorexics’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/04/you-tube-sophie-anorexia


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