Performing honor online: The affordances of social media for surveillance and impression management in an honor culture

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2595-2612

  Pearce, Katy E ^a   Vitak, Jessica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Azerbaijan; honor culture; impression management; social media; social network sites; surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994414321     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444815600279     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Baldry AC, Pagliaro S, Porcaro C, (2013) The rule of law at time of masculine honor: Afghan police attitudes and intimate partner violence. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 16(3): 363–374.
2. Brayda WC, Boyce TD, (2014) So you really want to interview me? Navigating “sensitive” qualitative research interviewing. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 13: 318–334.
3. Browne K, (2005) Snowball sampling: using social networks to research non-heterosexual women. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 8(1): 47–60.
4. Carr CT, Hayes RA, (2015) Social media: defining, developing, and divining. Atlantic Journal of Communication 23(1): 45–65.
5. Charmaz K, (2006) Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis. London: SAGE.
6. Cihangir S, (2013) Gender specific honor codes and cultural change. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 16(3): 319–333.
7. Ellison NB, Boyd DM, (2013) Sociality through social network sites. In: Dutton WH, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 151–172.
8. Ellison NB, Vitak J, Gray R. (2014) Cultivating social resources on social network sites: Facebook relationship maintenance behaviors and their role in social capital processes. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 19(4): 855–870.
9. Farrell H, (2012) The consequences of the Internet for politics. Annual Review of Political Science 15(1): 35–52.
10. Fox J, Moreland JJ, (2015) The dark side of social networking sites: an exploration of the relational and psychological stressors associated with Facebook use and affordances. Computers in Human Behavior 45: 168–176.
11. Frichova Grono M, (2011) Nations in Transit: Azerbaijan. Washington, DC: Freedom House.
12. Gahramanova A, (2009) Internal and external factors in the democratization of Azerbaijan. Democratization 16(4): 777–803.
13. Giordano C, (2012) Anthropology meets history: investigating European societies. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 21(2): 20–34.
14. Goffman E, (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Books.
15. Gregg GS, (2007) Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
16. Günsoy C, Cross SE, Sarıbay A. (2015) Would you post that picture and let your dad see it? Culture, honor, and Facebook. European Journal of Social Psychology 45(3): 323–335.
17. Heyat F, (2002) Azeri Women in Transition. London: Routledge.
18. Hogan B, (2010) The presentation of self in the age of social media: distinguishing performances and exhibitions online. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 30(6): 377–386.
19. Homans GC, (1958) Social behavior as exchange. American Journal of Sociology 63(6): 597–606.
20. Kazimova A, (2011) Media in Azerbaijan: the ruling family dominates TV, the opposition has some papers. Caucasus Analytical Digest 25: 4–7.
21. Leary MR, (1996) Self-Presentation: Impression Management and Interpersonal Behavior. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
22. Leung AK-Y, Cohen D, (2011) Within- and between-culture variation: individual differences and the cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 100(3): 507–526.
23. Liamputtong P, (2008) Doing research in a cross-cultural context: methodological and ethical challenges. In: Liamputtong P, (ed.) Doing Cross-Cultural Research, Social Indicators Research Series. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 3–20.
24. Litt E, Hargittai E, (2014) A bumpy ride on the information superhighway: exploring turbulence online. Computers in Human Behavior 36: 520–529.
25. Litt E, Spottswood EL, Birnholtz J. (2014) Awkward encounters of an “other” kind: collective self-presentation and face threat on Facebook. In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work & social computing—CSCW’14, Baltimore, MD, 15–19 February, pp. 449–460. New York: ACM Press.
26. Lyon D, (2001) Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life. Buckingham: Open University Press.
27. Madini AA, Nooy J, (2014) Cross-gender communication in a Saudi Arabian Internet discussion forum: opportunities, attitudes, and reactions. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 1–17.
28. Marwick AE, (2012) The public domain: surveillance in everyday life. Surveillance & Society 9(4): 378–393.
29. Marwick AE, Boyd DM, (2011) To see and be seen: celebrity practice on Twitter. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 17(2): 139–158.
30. Marx G, (2002) What’s new about the “new surveillance”? Classifying for change and continuity. Surveillance & Society 1(1): 9–29.
31. Mishra S, Basu S, (2014) Family honor, cultural norms and social networking: strategic choices in the visual self-presentation of young Indian Muslim women. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 8(2): 38.
32. Nisbett RE, Cohen D, (1996) Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
33. Nissenbaum H, (2011) A contextual approach to privacy online. Daedalus 140(4): 32–48.
34. Patton MQ, (2002) Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
35. Pearce KE, (2015) Democratizing kompromat: the affordances of social media for state-sponsored harassment. Information, Communication & Society 1–17.
36. Rainie L, Smith A, Duggan M, (2013) Coming and going on Facebook. Washington, DC: Available at: http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/02/05/coming-and-going-on-facebook/
37. Rains SA, Brunner SR, (2014) What can we learn about social network sites by studying Facebook? A call and recommendations for research on social network sites. New Media & Society 17(1): 114–131.
38. Rui JR, Stefanone MA, (2013) Strategic self-presentation online: a cross-cultural study. Computers in Human Behavior 29(1): 110–118.
39. Schlenker BR, (2012) Self-presentation. Second. In: Leary MR, Tangney JP, (eds) Handbook of Self and Identity. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 542–570.
40. Shafa S, Harinck F, Ellemers N. (2014) Who are you calling rude? Honor-related differences in morality and competence evaluations after an insult. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 7(1): 38–56.
41. Tedeschi JT, Riess M, (1981) Identities, the phenomenal self, and laboratory research. In: Tedeschi JT, (ed.) Impression Management Theory and Social Psychological Research. New York: Academic Press, pp. 3–22.
42. Tohidi N, (1996) Soviet in public, Azeri in private. Women’s Studies International Forum 19(1–2): 111–123.
43. Tohidi N, (1997) The intersection of gender, ethnicity and Islam in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan. Nationalities Papers 25(1): 147–167.
44. Tohidi N, (1999) “Guardians of the nation”: Women, Islam and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan. In: Afsaruddin A, (ed.) Hermeneutics and Honor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard CMES, pp. 89–115.
45. Treem JW, Leonardi PM, (2012) Social media use in organizations: exploring the affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association. In: Salmon CT, (ed.) Communication Yearbook 36. London: Routledge, pp. 143–189.
46. Trottier D, (2012) Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
47. Trottier D, Lyon D, (2012) Key features of social media surveillance. In: Fuchs C, Boersma K, Albrechtslund A. (eds) The Internet and Surveillance: The Challenge of Web 2.0 and Social Media. New York: Routledge, pp. 89–105.
48. Tufekci Z, (2008) Can you see me now? Audience and disclosure regulation in online social network sites. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 28(1): 20–36.
49. Van Eck C, (2003) Purified by Blood: Honour Killings amongst Turks in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
50. Van Osch Y, Breugelmans SM, Zeelenberg M. (2013) A different kind of honor culture: family honor and aggression in Turks. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 16(3): 334–344.
51. Vandello JA, Cohen D, (2003) Male honor and female fidelity: implicit cultural scripts that perpetuate domestic violence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 84(5): 997–1010.
52. Vandello JA, Bosson JK, Cohen D. (2008) Precarious manhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95(6): 1325–1339.
53. Vitak J, Kim J, (2014) You can’t block people offline. In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work & social computing—CSCW’14, Baltimore, MD, 15–19 February, pp. 461–474. New York: ACM Press.
54. Walther JB, Parks MR, (2002) Cues filtered out, cues filtered in: computer-mediated communication and relationships. In: Knapp ML, Daly JA, (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 529–563.
55. Walther JB, Van Der Heide B, Kim S-Y. (2008) The role of friends’ appearance and behavior on evaluations of individuals on Facebook: are we known by the company we keep? Human Communication Research 34(1): 28–49.
56. Waltorp K, (2015) Keeping cool, staying virtuous: social media and the composite habitus of young Muslim women in Copenhagen. MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research 31(58): 49–67.
57. Wohn DY, Birnholtz J, Hancock JT. (2014) Impression curation: reacting to other-generated face threats on Facebook. In: International Communication Association. Seattle, WA. Available at: http://socialmedia.northwestern.edu/files/2014/01/ICA2014.pdf (accessed 29 January 2014).
58. Young AL, Quan-Haase A, (2013) Privacy protection strategies on Facebook. Information, Communication & Society 16(4): 479–500.