Lifestreaming is a crafted self-presentation rather than transparent self-disclosure

Evidence

Contrary to the utopian theories of transparency and openness promoted in Web 2.0 discourse, and the moral panics around lack of privacy online, lifestreaming is not an unvarnished digital stream of someone’s online actions. Instead it is a carefully edited, purposeful construction of self. Lifestreamers choose what to reveal and conceal: they monitor their own and other’s actions, publicizing certain aspects of their lives while keeping other parts to themselves, and they may even exaggerate or falsify information to produce a desired effect. The resulting lifestream is an attempt to inculcate a particular version of oneself that appeals to others in the networked audience. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 638

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core concept of the book by overturning the naive ‘raw stream’ reading of what lifestreaming actually is.
• XREF: Directly connects to Goffman’s self-presentation theory and boyd’s ‘context collapse’ — foundational adjacent literatures on identity performance. — connects to: Lifestreaming is continuous self-sharing to an invisible networked audience — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 538; Showing oneself as a self online begins the manufacturing of the self as commodity — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 61; Online self-presentation expresses a neoliberal subjectivity applying market principles to identity — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 25 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Online self-presentation expresses a neoliberal subjectivity applying market principles to identity #corroborates (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 25
• Showing oneself as a self online begins the manufacturing of the self as commodity #expands (0.72) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 61