Reality Television as a Model for Online Behavior: Blogging, Photo, and Video Sharing
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This research explores traditional mass media as an antecedent to nondirected self-disclosure online. New Internet-based tools allow users to communicate with global audiences, and to make intimate personal information available to this audience. At the same time, a culture that rewards the public performance of private thoughts and emotions is increasingly evident in “reality” television (RTV) programming. This study used survey data to examine RTV consumption, authoritarianism, and users' offline social context as potential antecedents for nondirected self-disclosure via blogs, online photo sharing, and online video sharing. RTV consumption correlated with blogging and video sharing, but not photo sharing. Social support network size was a significant correlate of photo sharing, indicating that photo sharing may be a more relational activity.
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Photos are an imperative form of content used for self-disclosure purposes with the aim of sharing more information about oneself.
“Finally, photos are also deemed to be an imperative form of content used for self-disclosure purposes with the aim of sharing more information about oneself (Lee, 2009;Stefanone & Lackaff, 2009).”
From Uses and Gratifications of digital photo sharing on Facebook (2016) · cites this paper as Stefanone & Lackaff, 2009
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“Miller and Edwards (2007) note that two relatively distinct modes of photo sharing can be observed online–both the traditional sharing of photos with an existing social network of friends and family, and an emergent form of public sharing with strangers and online acquaintances.”
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Uses and Gratifications of digital photo sharing on Facebook
Malik, A., Dhir, A., & Nieminen, M. (2016) · Telematics and Informatics · doi:10.1016/j.tele.2015.06.009 · Cited by 433 · see citing works
“Furthermore, numerous platforms for sharing photos online encourage users to disclose information about themselves as well as their surroundings (Lee, 2009; Stefanone & Lackaff, 2009) .”
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- Authors
- Stefanone, M. A., & Lackaff, D.
- Affiliations
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- ORCID
- Lackaff, Derek
- Venue
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 964-987
- ISSN
- 1083-6101 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2062357899
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- reality television, online self-disclosure, blogging, image sharing, video sharing, authoritarianism, social support networks, media influence, online behavior
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