Title
Profile as promise: A framework for conceptualizing veracity in online dating self-presentations.
Abstract
This research explores how users conceptualize misrepresentation (their own and others') in a specific genre of online self-presentation: the online dating profile. Using qualitative data collected from 37 online dating participants, we explore user understandings of self-presentational practices, specifically how discrepancies between one's online profile and offline presentation are constructed, assessed, and justified. Based on our analysis, we propose the profile as promise framework as an analytic lens that captures user understandings about profile-based representation through a qualitative analysis of their retrospective reflections.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1177/1461444811410395
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
Keywords
Field
DocType
asynchronicity,common ground,deception,hyperpersonal,identity,online dating,profile,self-presentation
Social psychology,Qualitative property,Deception,Misrepresentation,Hyperpersonal model,Psychology,Common ground
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14.0
1
1461-4448
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
47
2.47
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicole Ellison16051509.80
Jeffrey T. Hancock21242106.09
Catalina Toma319715.66