Presentation Year

2019

Depreciated Participant

Kaitlin SimpsonAnthropologyUndergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Due to the rapid changes to social media studies, I conducted analyses of relevant literature to explore Instagram (IG) users’ motivations and methods used project images of themselves to the world that are seen as ”ideal”. The existing literature suggests IG users’ motivations for cultivating and maintaining online personas correlate with an overall trend of commodification of “self”, and data show that IG users use the platform to manage relationships online and in “real life” (face to face). IG usage highlights changes in ourselves as a result of our choices involving self-identity online, and the ways in which maintaining an IG profile changes the way we perceive and engage with others.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

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618

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