TY - GEN
T1 - Random, Messy, Funny, Raw
T2 - 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
AU - Xiao, Sijia
AU - Metaxa, Danaë
AU - Park, Joon Sung
AU - Karahalios, Karrie
AU - Salehi, Niloufar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/4/21
Y1 - 2020/4/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - feminist hci
KW - finsta
KW - performance
KW - reconfiguration
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U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376424
DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376424
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091295505
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020
ER -