Selfie Motivations of Generation Y in Turkey within Visual Sharing Culture Context

İ. Ayşad GÜDEKLİ; Nur CEMELELİOĞLU ALTIN

Makale detayları

Selfie Motivations of Generation Y in Turkey within Visual Sharing Culture Context

Yazarlar:

İ. Ayşad GÜDEKLİ | Nur CEMELELİOĞLU ALTIN

Yayıncı:

Mutlu TÜRKMEN

Ana Başlıklar:

Media and communication

Dergi:

International Journal of Cultural and Social Studies (IntJCSS) 2018 Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.304-325

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000644867

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2458-9381

Özet:

 


In recent years selfie has become an inevitable part of social
networking sites (SNS). With the substantial growth of profile-based SNS, users
communicate and represent themselves through photographs, particularly with
selfies. A selfie is a self-representation tool, more intensely among younger
generations. In this research, we focused on motivations of Y generation to
express themselves through selfie in Turkey. We specified 4 main hypotheses;
social media usage, showing and defining themselves, social acceptance, and narcissism.
In order to investigate this hypothesis, we focused on college students who are
active SNS users. Semi-structured interviews conducted to reach in-depth
information about their tendencies and motivations. Our findings supported
hypothesizes we identified. 




As a result, participants have social networking accounts for a long
time and are observed to be spending a long time each day on these platforms.
Users utilize SNS to be present in the virtual world as well as to see the
shares of other users. It has been observed that users take a selfie to share
their social media identities, to be liked by other people, to show themselves
better than they are in real life, to take the pleasure of continuous likes.
When we examined the motivations of the users, we observed that there are some
narcissistic tendencies. We have discussed our insights for the future research
in line with such findings.   

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Makale detayları

Selfie Motivations of Generation Y in Turkey within Visual Sharing Culture Context

Yazarlar: İ. Ayşad GÜDEKLİ | Nur CEMELELİOĞLU ALTIN

Yayıncı: Mutlu TÜRKMEN

Ana Başlıklar: Media and communication

Dergi: International Journal of Cultural and Social Studies (IntJCSS) 2018 Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.304-325

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000644867

Sıklık: Aylık

eISSN: 2458-9381

Sayı

Yazarlar:

İ. Ayşad GÜDEKLİ | Nur CEMELELİOĞLU ALTIN

Yayıncı:

Mutlu TÜRKMEN

Ana Başlıklar:

Media and communication

Dergi:

International Journal of Cultural and Social Studies (IntJCSS) 2018 Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.304-325

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000644867

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2458-9381