Impact On Identity : Age Flashcards

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GARDNER & DAVIS

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Young people are the most frequent users of social media & they take a lot of care over how they present themselves online.

1) young people construct a socially desirable & polished or ‘glammed up’ self online where they exaggerate socially attractive aspects of their personality.
2) adopt a range of identities because they want to represent themselves in different ways on different sites.
3) GOFFMAN - identity performance.

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KATZ ET AL

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Mobile phones status symbol & fashion statement shaping identity.

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TURKLE

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Young people are mentally ‘tethered’ to their digital devices constantly needing to track and check their connections
— weakened ability to develop an autonomous sense of self

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CASE

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2 adolescents (one offline one online) - challenging 
— new media makes it harder to remove youthful mistakes as every interaction is visible.
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DOWD

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Digital divide between young and old can make it harder for them to understand each other as so much youth culture is linked to new technology
— elderly = ‘strangers in own land’

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BERRY

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37% households above state pension age had internet access compared to 79% of younger households.

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DAMANT & KNAPP

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Digital generation divide — loneliness

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