@inproceedings{3fafabe720684ce4977fbf9b4fd90dd0,
title = "Random, Messy, Funny, Raw: Finstas as Intimate Reconfigurations of Social Media",
abstract = "Among many young people, the creation of a finsta-A portmanteau of {"}fake{"} and {"}Instagram{"} which describes secondary Instagram accounts-provides an outlet to share emotional, low-quality, or indecorous content with their close friends. To study why people create and maintain finstas, we conducted a qualitative study through interviews with finsta users and content analysis of video bloggers exposing their finsta on YouTube. We found that one way that young people deal with mounting social pressures is by reconfiguring online platforms and changing their purposes, norms, expectations, and currencies. Carving out smaller spaces accessible only to close friends allows users the opportunity for a more unguarded, vulnerable, and unserious performance. Drawing on feminist theory, we term this process intimate reconfiguration. Through this reconfiguration finsta users repurpose an existing and widely-used social platform to create opportunities for more meaningful and reciprocal forms of social support.",
keywords = "feminist hci, finsta, performance, reconfiguration",
author = "Sijia Xiao and Dana{\"e} Metaxa and Park, {Joon Sung} and Karrie Karahalios and Niloufar Salehi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.; 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 ; Conference date: 25-04-2020 Through 30-04-2020",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1145/3313831.3376424",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}