Random, Messy, Funny, Raw: Finstas as Intimate Reconfigurations of Social Media
Random, Messy, Funny, Raw: Finstas as Intimate Reconfigurations of Social Media
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随机、凌乱、有趣、原始：Finstas 作为社交媒体的亲密重新配置
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10.1145/3313831.3376424
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2020
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Niloufar Salehi
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Sijia Xiao;D. Metaxa;J. Park;Karrie Karahalios;Niloufar Salehi
在许多年轻人中，创建finsta--“fake”和“Instagram”（描述二级Instagram账户）的合成词--提供了一个与亲密朋友分享情绪化、低质量或不雅内容的渠道。为了研究人们为什么创建和维护finsta，我们通过对finsta用户的访谈和对在YouTube上展示他们的finsta的视频博主的内容分析进行了定性研究。我们发现，年轻人应对日益增加的社会压力的一种方式是重新配置在线平台，改变他们的目的、规范、期望和货币。开辟出只有亲密朋友才能访问的更小空间，让用户有机会获得更不设防、更脆弱和更不严肃的表现。借鉴女权主义理论，我们称这一过程为亲密的重新配置。通过这种重新配置，finsta的用户重新利用了现有的和广泛使用的社交平台，为更有意义和互惠的社交支持形式创造机会。
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.