Publications

Publication details [#56735]

Bouvier, Gwen. 2012. How Facebook users select identity categories for self-presentation. Journal of multicultural discourses 7 (1) : 37–57.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | identity negotiation | internet | self-presentation | university

Language as a subject

Welsh

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on Machin and Van Leeuwen's Social Actor Analysis, this article discusses how undergraduate students at Glamorgan University in Cardiff (Wales), largely select nationalist and biological ethnic identity categories, alongside other lifestyle identities, for Facebook self-presentation.