1) Online interactions allow people to selectively curate and modify their self-presentation by editing photos, choosing profile pictures, and crafting personas. This ability to shape one's online identity differs from the fixed self presented in face-to-face interactions. 2) Teens in particular may present different selves to different audiences online versus what they display to their families at home, indicating they see online spaces as opportunities for self-expression without disapproval. 3) While people can form impressions of others' personalities online, these perceptions do not always match how individuals view themselves, showing that online identities may diverge from internal senses of self.

1. Can you see the real me?
– The Who, (Quadrophenia)
Image by Haylie Jaed
By: Michelle Truax

2. Or retouch:
the voice,
the flesh,
the face,
the body.
-The Flight From Conversation
Texting and e-mail and posting let us present
the self we want to be.
Image by brim261974
This means we can edit. And if we wish to,
we can delete.

3. and also mask our identity.
- The Social Psychology of the Selfie
One of the differences between our self-image
in real life and online is more ability to
change our look,
Image by Alistair Isreal

4. more appealing
than what the image actually looks
like, let alone what the naked eye
would've seen.
-The Social Psychology of the Selfie
Image by Juan Ignacio Garay
Filters make any photo look

5. in the mirror versus a regular photo is different.
The mirror shows a reverse view, but also shows
you alive and with movement.
- The Social Psychology of the Selfie
How we see ourselves
Image by phil41dean

6. Technology has also allowed us to
shape who we are
and highlight
specific features in ways we couldn't
do as easily offline.
-The Social Psychology of the Selfie
Image by Katerha

7. Even when a person posts
a photo of you on social media,
you can untag, delete or
modify the photo
to keep social presence more consistent
with the self image you
want others to see-The Social Psychology of the Selfie
Image by saintbob

8. "This may mean routine photoshopping to create a more
'likeable' self, or simply choosing photos that seem more like
the visual self we want to present”
-Dr. Letamendi, (The Social Psychology of the Selfie)
Image by rennesi

9. “Instagram has become more popular and I do think
the ability to photos very easily
does play a role” -Dr Leaver (‘Selfies’)
Image by Angelo Gonzalez
manipulate

10. Virtual
environments
allow individuals
to dramatically alter their
self-representation.(The Proteus Effect)
Image by Bahman Farzad

11. “With more and more of our lives being lived both in the physical
and virtual worlds, it's important to understand the kinds of
impressions we give off to others
through the traces we leave behind
in our environments,"
Image by andercismo
Source: From bullying to relationships

12. the anonymityof the internet enables people the opportunity to
take on various personas, even a
different gender, and to express
facets of themselves without
fear of disapproval and sanctions by those in their
real-life social circle.
Source: Can you see the Real Me?
Image by Public Domain Photos

13. when asked to show us a
photograph that was
liked
(The secret life of teens)
but would never
be displayed
at home,
one teenage
girl retrieved
her profile
photograph
on Facebook
Image by owenbrown

14. what people are embarrassed about is when
pictures get spread outside of the circle of people
you want to see them” – Professor Stratton, (Selfies)
“I think
Image by Kevin Dooley

15. Internet interaction settings do
facilitate expression of the
true selffor the average person
in an initial meeting with a stranger.
–McKenna, (Relationship Formation)
Image by stuant63

16. In Harter’s view, a
perceived ‘discrepancy’
between the performance
of one’s ‘real self ’and
the given ‘ideal self ’
is found to lower self-worth in that
domain. (The secret life of teens)
Image by The Past Trends Disappear

17. close relationships
in Internet rather than face-to-face
interaction settings are more likely to form
with people met on the Internet
-McKenna (Relation Formation)
Those who are better able to express their
“true selves”
Image by Hakan Dahlstrom

18. coupled with the medium’s ability
to support selective self-
presentation make
deception
an easy and convenient strategy for
image construction
Source: (Looks and Lies)
Image by Juan Manuel Cruz de Cueto
The malleable nature of self-presentational
elements in online dating profiles

19. (The secret life of teens)
The teens presented
themselves differently at
home to their family
than they did to their
friends
online.
Image by JD Hancock

20. A ‘generational
digital divide’
which has opened up as a
result of hidden
teen behaviours on the
internet
(The secret life of teens)
Image by Lance Neilson

21. ...researchers found that although people can make consistent judgments about
a player's personality, those
how the players view themselves. (From bullying to relationships)
impressions do not match
World of Warcraft
Image by Cyberslayer

22. Representation is
a three-part
relationship between
object, image and
society. - David Zeitlyn
(Representation/Self-Representation)
Image by taqumi

23. we are inevitably telling those
around us something about
who we are
as individuals."
(The secret life of teens)
"Whether we're
creating a screen
name or avatar for
ourselves, or broadcasting
that the bar or coffee shop
down the street is one of
our frequent hangouts,
Image by Walt Stoneburner

24. We urgently need new
paradigms of representation
to ground the discipline
between the extremes of
‘‘anything goes
relativism’’
and ‘‘simple minded
realism’’
David Zeitlyn (Representation/Self-Representation)
Image by Diacritical

25. Credits and References
All images were sourced from Flickr’s Creative Commons with Attribution Licence and Attribution-Non Commercial License. Artists
are referenced at the bottom right of each slide. Quotes were sourced from the following supplied Film 260 required readings and
from accredited internet articles and studies.
• Can You See the Real Me? Activation and Expression of the “true Self” on the Internet. John A. Bargh, Katelyn Y.A. McKenna,
Grainne M. Fitzsimons.New York University. Journal of Social Issues. Vol 58, No 1. 2002.
http://www.jrichardstevens.com/articles/McKenna- onlinerelation.pdf
• From bullying to relationships: Mapping our online communications. esciencenews. Psychology & Sociology. January 2013.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/01/20/from.bullying.relationships.mapping.our.online.communications
• Looks and Lies: The Role of Physical Attractiveness in Online Dating Self-Presentation and Deception. By Catalina L. Toma, Jeffrey T.
Hancock. Communication Research. 2010.
http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/tmp/10426179137590187170.pdf
• QUADROPHENIA “CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME?”. TheWho.com, December 2012.http://thewho.com/story/quadrophenia-can-you-
see-the-real-me-documentary-digital-release-u-s-only-2/
• Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction? Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, Amie S. Green, Marci E.J. Gleason. New
York University. Journal of Social Issues. Vol. 58 No.1 2002. http://www.jrichardstevens.com/articles/McKenna-
onlinerelation.pdf
• Representation=Self-representation: A Tale of Two Portraits; or, Portraits and Social Science Representations. By David Zeitlyn.
Visual Anthropology. 2010 http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/tmp/18142021755246435535.pdf
• 'Selfies' just as much for the insecure as show-offs. By Jillian McHugh. WAtoday. April 2013
• The Flight From Conversation. Sherry Turkle. The New York Times. April 2012.
• The Proteus Effect implications of Transformed Digital Self-Representation on Online and Offline Behaviour. By Nick Yee, Jeremy N.
Bailenson, Nicolas Ducheneaut. Standford University, Palo Alto Research Center. Communication Research, Sage
Publications. April 2009.
• The secret life of teens: online versus offline photographic displays at home. By Abigail Durrant et. al. Visual Studies. June 2011.
http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/tmp/528973603491654246.pdf
• The Social Psychology of the Selfie. By Christine Erickson. Mashable. February 2013.
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