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Dissertation Proposal Defense for Xiaoyun Huang
Event Start Date: Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 3:00 pm
Event End Date: Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 5:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Variations in Individuals’ Social Media Self-Presentation Across Time, Account, and Platform & How Audiences Perceive the Variations 
Abstract: Self-presentation refers to how people express themselves – through their physical appearances, behaviors, and attitudes – to shape how other people perceive them. Self- presentation has been one of the most important motivations for people to use social media since its earliest days. As social media platforms have become more popular, people have increasingly incorporated multiple platforms into their daily lives, presenting themselves in front of different audiences across these platforms and taking advantage of different platform features and affordances that help them shape their self-presentation. The vast majority of social media research on self-presentation focuses on single platforms. In addition, while posters and audiences are both important parties in the process of self-presentation, most research emphasizes posters’ voices in how they build up their online images while ignoring audiences’ voices in how they perceive and respond to posters’ self-presentation.Xiaoyun Huang
In my dissertation research, I will explore differences in individuals’ social media self-presentation across three important dimensions in their social media space: time, account, and platform; and how their audiences perceive the differences in their self-presentation. This dissertation research consists of four studies with a combination of qualitative (e.g., interviews) and quantitative (e.g., survey) research methods. A range of data will be collected and used in this research (e.g., interview data about the use of WeChat, survey data about the use of two types of accounts on Instagram, comments under Youtube videos).
Committee:
Dr. Jessica Vitak, Chair
Dr. Ge Gao
Dr. Jen Golbeck
Dr. Wayne Lutters
Dr. Anita Atwell Seate, Dean’s Representative
*For the Zoom information, please contact Dr. Vitak.
VirtualVariations in Individuals’ Social Media Self-Presentation Across Time, Account, and Platform & How Audiences Perceive the Variations
Abstract: Self-presentation refers to how people express themselves – through their physical appearances, behaviors, and attitudes – to shape how other people perceive them. Self- presentation has been one of the most important motivations for people to use social media since its earliest days. As social media platforms have become more popular, people have increasingly incorporated multiple platforms into their daily lives, presenting themselves in front of different audiences across these platforms and taking advantage of different platform features and affordances that help them shape their self-presentation. The vast majority of social media research on self-presentation focuses on single platforms. In addition, while posters and audiences are both important parties in the process of self-presentation, most research emphasizes posters’ voices in how they build up their online images while ignoring audiences’ voices in how they perceive and respond to posters’ self-presentation.Xiaoyun Huang
In my dissertation research, I will explore differences in individuals’ social media self-presentation across three important dimensions in their social media space: time, account, and platform; and how their audiences perceive the differences in their self-presentation. This dissertation research consists of four studies with a combination of qualitative (e.g., interviews) and quantitative (e.g., survey) research methods. A range of data will be collected and used in this research (e.g., interview data about the use of WeChat, survey data about the use of two types of accounts on Instagram, comments under Youtube videos).
Committee:
Dr. Jessica Vitak, Chair
Dr. Ge Gao
Dr. Jen Golbeck
Dr. Wayne Lutters
Dr. Anita Atwell Seate, Dean’s Representative
*For the Zoom information, please contact Dr. Vitak.