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SUMMARY:Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile st
 atuses: What does our status say about us? - Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Univer
 sidad Complutense Madrid)
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CONTACT:Tim Laméris
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 CT*\n\nSelf-presentation has been defined as «the process through which i
 ndividuals communicate an image of themselves to others» (Yang and Brown\
 , 2016: 404). In ordinary terms\, self-presentation is related to the impr
 ession we make on others when communicating with them\, and the image they
  will construct of ourselves (Goffman\, 1959). Self-presentation has been 
 widely studied both in face-to-face communication and online. Most online 
 research\, however\, has focused on social network sites\, blogs\, chatroo
 ms\, etc. while less attention has been paid to other online means of comm
 unication such as WhatsApp\, despite its pervasiveness. Based on previous 
 research (Maíz-Arévalo\, 2018\; 2021a\; 2021b)\, the aim of this talk is
  to analyse self-presentation on WhatsApp statuses by Spanish users\, by f
 ocusing on the different strategies users employ and their connection to a
 ge and gender. To this purpose\, a corpus of 206 WhatsApp statuses in Span
 ish was analysed following both a quantitative and qualitative methodology
 . Results shows the existence of recurrent patterns connected to these soc
 iological variables\, which help contribute to the users’ identity const
 ruction as members of different groups to different degrees of success.\n\
 nReferences\n\nGoffman\, Erving. 1959 (2002). The presentation of self in 
 everyday life. London: Penguin.\n\nMaíz-Arévalo\, C. 2018. “Emotional 
 self-presentation on WhatsApp: Analysis of the profile status.” Russian 
 Journal of Linguistics 22 (1)\, 144-160.\n\nMaíz-Arévalo\, C. 2021. “W
 hen humour backfires: How do WhatsApp users respond to humorous profile st
 atuses as a self-presentation strategy?” Internet Pragmatics\, 4(1)\, 11
 1-130.\n\nMaíz-Arévalo\, C. (2021). Humour and self-presentation on What
 sApp profile status. In Chaoqun Xie\, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland 
 (Eds.)\, Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice. Amsterdam
 : John Benjamins\, pp. 175-205.\n\nYang\, Chia-chen\, and B. Bradford Brow
 n. 2016. “Online Self-Presentation on Facebook and Self-Development duri
 ng the College Transition.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45(2): 402
 –416.
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