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Digital dressing up: modelling female teen identity in the discursive spaces of the fashion blogosphere
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Blogs, which resemble online diaries, represent a popular space for teenagers to write about their experiences and publish their thoughts on the Web. This ability offers a particularly valuable resource for teenagers in their formation and enactment of social identities. In this article, I examine how teen girls model their identity through the mediated spaces of fashion blogs. Given the broad choices in putting together fashion outfits and accessories for their blogs, I suggest that how teen girls conceptualise their online visual representation may offer a resource for how they come to realise their emerging offline identity. Through the processes of writing, reading and commenting on blogs, these teens engage in complex expressions of identity, using a range of multimodal resources. Via the perceptions and experiences of 10 female teen fashion bloggers, I question the importance of a dialogic interaction with other bloggers for how teens come to understand their own identity and cultural tastes. In so doing, I draw on the work of Bourdieu (1996) to demonstrate the discursive spaces of the blog as critical to the activity of trading cultural and social capital and, importantly, shaping expressions of emerging teen identity.
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“Studies suggested that adolescents presenting themselves by playing with different looks (Chittenden, 2010), testing different roles (Greenhow & Robelia, 2009) and answering questions about who they were (Farrugia et al., 2019), and pretending to be someone else (Kennedy & Lynch, 2016; Lichy et al., 2022; Schmitt et al., 2008) tended to explore their identities.”
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“Our findings also suggest that self-presentation strategies are common among adolescents on social media. These strategies include playing with appearance to present an ideal self, impersonating others, and creating fictitious profiles, all of which can be part of one’s identity exploration (Chittenden, 2010; Greenhow & Robelia, 2009; Kennedy & Lynch, 2016; Schmitt et al., 2008)”
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“The majority of the studies did not address the relationship between researchers and participants, except for two (Chittenden, 2010; Guzzetti & Gamboa, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Chittenden, T.
- Corresponding author
- Chittenden, Tara
- ORCID
- Chittenden, Tara
- Venue
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-07-08
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 505-520
- ISSN
- 1367-6261 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9680
- OpenAlex
- W2065156758
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 18.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Youth Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Culture and Social Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Keywords
- fashion blogs, blogosphere, adolescent girls, social identity construction, multimodality, cultural capital, Pierre Bourdieu, discursive space, fashion blogging
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