All the World Wide Web’s a Stage: Teenage Girls’ Self-Presentation and Identities Formation Through Status Updates

Masters Thesis

Pozzi, Megan. 2014. All the World Wide Web’s a Stage: Teenage Girls’ Self-Presentation and Identities Formation Through Status Updates. Masters Thesis Master of Education (Research). Queensland University of Technology.

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Title	All the World Wide Web’s a Stage: Teenage Girls’ Self-Presentation and Identities Formation Through Status Updates
Type	Masters Thesis
Authors	Pozzi, Megan
1. First	Gordon Tait
2. Second	Professor Jo Lampert
3. Third	Sarah Davey Chesters
Institution of Origin	Queensland University of Technology
Qualification Name	Master of Education (Research)
Number of Pages	206
Year	2014
Publisher	Queensland University of Technology
Place of Publication	Australia
Web Address (URL)	https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69333/
Abstract	This study investigates grade eight girls’ use of status updates on Facebook in order to create identities online. Using sociologist Erving Goffman’s theory of self-presentation as a framework, Jones and Pittman’s subsequent strategies of self-presentation are used to discover the ways in which teenage girls use status updates in order to create identities online and manage audience impressions. Using a mixed methods design, the results showed that, while existing self-presentation strategies persist, social networking has created new means of self-presentation. This study adds to a growing pool of research regarding teens’ engagement with social networking websites to form identities.
Keywords	Facebook; Self-presentation; Identity; Teenagers; Girls
Contains Sensitive Content	Does not contain sensitive content
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	390203. Sociology of education
	470102. Communication technology and digital media studies
Byline Affiliations	Queensland University of Technology

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