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Abstract | ||
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Digital artifacts on social media can challenge individuals during identity transitions, particularly those who prefer to delete, separate from, or hide data that are representative of a past identity. This work investigates concerns and practices reported by transgender people who transitioned while active on Facebook. We analyze open-ended survey responses from 283 participants, highlighting types of data considered problematic when separating oneself from a past identity, and challenges and strategies people engage in when managing personal data in a networked environment. We find that people shape their digital footprints in two ways: by editing the self-presentational data that is representative of a prior identity, and by managing the configuration of people who have access to that self-presentation. We outline the challenging interplay between shifting identities, social networks, and the data that suture them together. We apply these results to a discussion of the complexities of managing and forgetting the digital past.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1145/2858036.2858136 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Social network sites, identity transitions, life transitions, digital footprints, digital artifacts, networks, online identity, transgender, LGBTQ | Forgetting,Online identity,World Wide Web,Transgender,Social network,Social media,Computer science,Transgender people,Digital artifact,Data type | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-3362-7 | 15 | 0.71 |
References | Authors | |
20 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Oliver L. Haimson | 1 | 177 | 18.01 |
| Jed R. Brubaker | 2 | 323 | 31.02 |
| Lynn Dombrowski | 3 | 54 | 6.41 |
| Gillian Hayes | 4 | 1852 | 155.64 |