Transgender identity management across social media platforms
dc.contributor.author | Buss, Justin | |
dc.contributor.author | Le, Hayden | |
dc.contributor.author | Haimson, Oliver L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-19T14:20:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-19T14:20:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Media, Culture & Society, online first, 2021, pp. 1-17 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/168411 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Transgender people use social media for identity work, which takes place over time and across platforms. In this study, we interviewed 20 transgender social media users to examine transgender identity management across the social media ecosystem. We found that transgender social media users curate their social media experiences to fit their needs through creating accounts on different platforms, maintaining multiple accounts on individual platforms, and making active decisions about content they post, networks they are connected to, and content they interact with. In this way, transgender people’s social media curation is not limited to their own identity presentations, but also involves curating the content they see from others and whom they include in their networks. Together, these two types of online curation enable transgender social media users to craft social media worlds that meet their social and self-presentational needs. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Michigan Digital Studies Institute (DSI) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Michigan School of Information | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.subject | LGBTQ+ | en_US |
dc.subject | nonbinary | en_US |
dc.subject | online identity | en_US |
dc.subject | online self-presentation | en_US |
dc.subject | social media | en_US |
dc.subject | social media ecosystem | en_US |
dc.subject | transgender | en_US |
dc.title | Transgender identity management across social media platforms | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Information | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/168411/1/BussTransgenderIdentityManagement.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/1690 | |
dc.identifier.source | Media, Culture & Society | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6552-4540 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6100-5743 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of BussTransgenderIdentityManagement.pdf : Main article | |
dc.description.depositor | SELF | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Haimson, Oliver; 0000-0001-6552-4540 | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Buss, Justin; 0000-0001-6100-5743 | en_US |
dc.working.doi | 10.7302/1690 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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