We're all stars now; Reality television, Web 2.0, and mediated identities

Michael A. Stefanone; Derek Lackaff; Devan Rosen

doi:10.1145/1379092.1379114

We're all stars now; Reality television, Web 2.0, and mediated identities

Michael A. Stefanone
, Derek Lackaff
, Devan Rosen

Communication

SUNY Buffalo
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

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28 Scopus citations

Abstract

Social cognitive theory suggests a likely relationship between the rising popularity of both reality television and social networking sites. This research utilized a survey (N=456) of young adults to determine the extent to which reality television consumption explains user behavior in the context of social network sites. Results show a consistent relationship between reality television consumption on the length of time spent logged on to these sites, the size of user's networks, the proportion of friends not actually met face to face, and photo sharing frequency while controlling for age, gender and education. Other categories of television viewing like news, fiction, and educational programming were not related to user's online behavior.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HYPERTEXT'08
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08
Pages	107-111
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379114
State	Published - 2008
Event	HYPERTEXT'08: 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States Duration: Jun 19 2008 → Jun 21 2008

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Name	HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08

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Conference	HYPERTEXT'08: 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh, PA
Period	06/19/08 → 06/21/08

Keywords

Facebook
Photo sharing
Reality television
Social cognitive theory
Social network sites

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Stefanone, M. A., Lackaff, D., & Rosen, D. (2008). We're all stars now; Reality television, Web 2.0, and mediated identities. In HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08 (pp. 107-111). (HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08). https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379114

Stefanone, Michael A. ; Lackaff, Derek ; Rosen, Devan. / We're all stars now; Reality television, Web 2.0, and mediated identities. HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08. 2008. pp. 107-111 (HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08).

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Stefanone, MA, Lackaff, D & Rosen, D 2008, We're all stars now; Reality television, Web 2.0, and mediated identities. in HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08. HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08, pp. 107-111, HYPERTEXT'08: 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 06/19/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1379092.1379114

We're all stars now; Reality television, Web 2.0, and mediated identities. / Stefanone, Michael A.; Lackaff, Derek; Rosen, Devan.
HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08. 2008. p. 107-111 (HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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