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(DIR) Post #AYkYDvQh8mq2A9FTwe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-15T08:54:10Z
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Hey social science research geeks with a niche interest in obscure human computer interface studies, help me out here.Has there every been research done on whether the avatar a person is using for an online account influences their online personality and posting style?#research #SocialSciences #ComputerStudies #HCI
(DIR) Post #AYkbBdNJazsDS1Gc0O by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T09:27:16Z
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@strypey I covered this in my PhD thesis, link in profile. It was mostly in relation to gender stuff i.e. the genders of people v their avatars but also more generally about how people's conceptions of things are revealed by the features of their avatars. IIRC there are some references re this stuff in there.
(DIR) Post #AYkwhHlNa7hGj8SNCy by researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host
2023-08-15T13:28:32Z
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@strypey I'm not sure if you mean avatar in a social media sense (small picture) or in a VR sense (human representation) You might find these of interest: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/14/vr-real-impact-study-finds/https://www.immersivelearning.news/2019/10/05/being-tall-in-vr-can-make-us-more-confident-irl/
(DIR) Post #AYkwtswjA5pZWUlxpI by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-15T09:53:28Z
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@Oozenet @strypey Wouldn't the causal link be the other way around? How I see myself (or prefer to see myself) is reflected in my avatar?
(DIR) Post #AYkwttcudFZhdKVea0 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-15T13:30:38Z
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@Grandalf> Wouldn't the causal link be the other way around?That's the causal direction I was thinking of with the OP. I noticed that lately I've adopted a more jokey style of posting, more similar to the way I speak in person.What's changed? My profile pic. From an old fire dancing photo too small to recognise me from, this the current one where I'm all but doxxing myself.@Oozenet
(DIR) Post #AYlSN6YNS37JqIucoi by musicman@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T19:23:15Z
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@strypey @Grandalf @Oozenet curious what my inanimate object says about me...
(DIR) Post #AYllHPZthiIeEncdcG by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T22:55:16Z
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@strypey @Grandalf I go into this in my thesis where I speak about how our characters cause us to pick certain avatars but then those avatars perform back to us parts of our selves which then inform our avatar modification.
(DIR) Post #AYm7ArryJgLSwlMSP2 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-16T03:00:40Z
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@Researchbuzz > avatar in a social media sense (small picture)Yeah that one. But if there is an observable effect here, I imagine it applies even more so to VR avatars. Which has some intriguing implications...
(DIR) Post #AYmPp1w26vmevGYrgm by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T10:03:39Z
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@Grandalf @strypey It absolutely goes both ways.
(DIR) Post #AYmPp2oGrHAXdTwBEG by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-15T10:07:49Z
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@Oozenet @strypey Right. Off to read your thesis ...
(DIR) Post #AYmPp3cFrR9S8VK68e by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T10:13:42Z
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@Grandalf @strypey You might like to look in the section entitled Being In The World.
(DIR) Post #AYmPp4T4h3P0mK2HT6 by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-15T10:52:38Z
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@Oozenet @strypey 1st observation: your Ethics Committee were seriously disconnected from your proposed field of study 😂 Well done you for persevering 👏
(DIR) Post #AYmPp5Cnx1yx49QnkO by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T22:53:37Z
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@Grandalf @strypey omg yes. So mush so. That particular institution had a policy of having a "normal person" on their ethics committee. i.e. any regular member of the public could apply. The result in this case was an elder Christian with a pronounced prejudice against Paganism and negative technical knowledge. This was accompanied by the disease of our culture, the rest of the committee were not willing to speak up and rock the boat and let him keep objecting to crazy things.
(DIR) Post #AYmPp62upHfLfloPyK by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-16T06:29:31Z
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@Oozenet> This was accompanied by the disease of our culture, the rest of the committee were not willing to speak up and rock the boat and let him keep objecting to crazy thingsThe English and their infernal politeness. Their chronic conflict-avoidance is also endemic to kiwi culture. Bah humbug I say, and bah humbug again.@Grandalf
(DIR) Post #AYmQ7Lt8fCSa1FwatU by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-16T00:08:37Z
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@Oozenet @strypey That's fair. I chose my avatar, originally Ænesidemus, for his philosophy which matched mine. Then my snark and sarcasm came to the fore and that avatar changed to Grandalf – named by a pre-teen grandson making comment on my long hair and beard and knowledge of esoteric "stuff" – with whom I have been exchanging personality traits ever since.
(DIR) Post #AYmQ7My8e63NN3I6KG by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-16T00:21:07Z
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@Oozenet @strypey However!I posit that there is a huge difference between an interactive, animated avatar in a system like Second Life, or even IRC where role playing was a thing, and an avatar in a social media micro-blog.I played in IRC - largely a Ranger-style character - and interacting with others in and out of character were (in my mind) strongly delineated. Here it's more of an overall "vibe".Oh, and I ran into Gor characters there; toxic masculinity before toxic masculinity was a thing and the "women¿" drove me nuts.
(DIR) Post #AYmQ7NjzmAKnlTgJv6 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-16T06:32:54Z
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@Grandalf > in IRC... and interacting with others in and out of character were (in my mind) strongly delineated. Here it's more of an overall "vibe"Yes, I notice this, for sure. I presume @Oozenet's thesis covered this, but I see this as one of the social problems of contemporary netculture. When you're never totally sure when you're LARPing and when you're not, the consequence is that you're always LARPing. In some cases, in the same "room" as people who are deadly serious, even in distress.
(DIR) Post #AYmQFpKx3feZfXzidM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-16T06:34:23Z
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@Grandalf @Oozenet I posted a rant a few years back about how social media is what would happen if you tried to have an academic conference and a keg party in the same huge room. Nothing much has changed in that time, and this is just as much of a problem in the verse as elsewhere online. With the caveat that looking at which server an account is on gives you a clue whether they're here for the conference or the keg.
(DIR) Post #AYmS2G0pHavGFuEpMm by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-16T06:54:20Z
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@strypey @Oozenet "When you're never totally sure when you're LARPing and when you're not, the consequence is that you're always LARPing."This is all too true throughout society.
(DIR) Post #AYmSAMKLgioo9pEVUW by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-16T06:55:51Z
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@strypey @Oozenet The equivalent of checking to see if they're in a suit or board shorts and a Hawaiian shirt? 🤣
(DIR) Post #AYmSftR0e4lzocNvnM by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-16T07:01:33Z
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@strypey @Oozenet Oh, but the politeness hides a very nasty undercurrent of superiority and viciousness. Sometimes it hides it not so well.
(DIR) Post #AYmWHXnRqLelZZWdqy by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T07:41:18Z
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@strypey @Grandalf Politeness, yes that is what it is.
(DIR) Post #AYmZYfjfsXlwyscSSO by enchantedsleeper@fandom.ink
2023-08-16T08:18:40Z
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@strypey I could see a change in posting style when a person is using an image of themselves versus something else (with nuance over whether it's a photograph or a say, an illustration), but you could argue that also has links to whether you use an account as a professional profile/under your real name or an anonymous internet profile. It would probably be quite difficult to separate the effect of the actual image itself from those factors. My guess would be that most people who don't post under
(DIR) Post #AYmt6929rtCQX5wImu by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-16T11:57:39Z
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@Grandalf > The equivalent of checking to see if they're in a suit or board shorts and a Hawaiian shirt?Exactly! As opposed to on the DataFarms, where everyone is dressed in an identical white, skintight onesie, like in THX1138 ; )The fact that I'm more inclined to turn up to an academic conference in the board shorts than the suit make confuse the odd person...@Oozenet
(DIR) Post #AYmvIKNhhi7J6rxE3M by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-16T12:22:11Z
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@Oozenet > Politeness, yes that is what it is"Politeness" is what's it's generally called. Conflict-avoidance is more accurate description. Or as a friend of mine would call it, primate status games. I don't do "politeness", I do respect.It's more respectful to tell someone they're in danger of something they would want to avoid, than it is to avoid conflict by watching them piddle on their own shoes ; )@Grandalf
(DIR) Post #AYnsbNIyx5HeyY62Km by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T23:26:35Z
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@strypey @Grandalf Mostly people are avoiding conflict because of the epidemic of not giving a fuck that is rampant in our society, understandable given people are wholesale being trapped in jobs they hate just to survive and they are being treated like shit. Until we can build a culture where people are not held hostage by fear, and where they can contribute to overall flourishing in meaningful ways that they give a shit about, and where they are treated fairly there will be no change.
(DIR) Post #AYnspCYBjbf5fsnmW8 by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T23:29:11Z
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@strypey @Grandalf This describes Goffman's theory of performative selves. Goffman, E., (1959), The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life, Anchor Books, New York. Still a classic. tldr; we are all LARPing all the time.
(DIR) Post #AYnwHindj4eHfGJv6W by Grandalf@aus.social
2023-08-17T00:07:59Z
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@strypey @Oozenet Extra +1 for the THX-1138 reference ...
(DIR) Post #AYoTtYgj48JDnOjhVQ by enchantedsleeper@fandom.ink
2023-08-16T08:19:47Z
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@strypey their real name don't use a photo of themselves (says the Hello Kitty profile pic) and so you're unlikely to get just that factor, isolated from the other things that influence a person's posting style (approaching something as a professional/RL profile, and having it tied to their name)
(DIR) Post #AYoTtZVm0L8sLicT4a by enchantedsleeper@fandom.ink
2023-08-16T08:22:52Z
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@strypey To articulate my point a bit more clearly, I think it's an interesting question but most of the time the intention for the account is set by a range of choices of which the avatar is just one. If I switched from Hello Kitty to Darth Vader, would my posting style change? Well, it would be a dramatic change in vibe, but my own personality and the way I use this account hasn't changed, so probably not
(DIR) Post #AYoTtaGDDgHyfkLYSO by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-17T06:24:36Z
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@enchantedsleeper > If I switched from Hello Kitty to Darth Vader, would my posting style change? Well, it would be a dramatic change in vibe, but my own personality and the way I use this account hasn't changed, so probably notThat doesn't match my (admittedly subjective) observations in the post you replied to. YMMV ; )> It would probably be quite difficult to separate the effect of the actual image itself from those factorsThis is why I was asking for social science papers on it.
(DIR) Post #AYoVJUkoPn3p4sZwno by enchantedsleeper@fandom.ink
2023-08-17T06:40:30Z
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@strypey Right, I was hypothesising on how one might go about studying it - I'm assuming there aren't any, but it is a cool question to answer ^^