Online authenticity, popularity, and the “Real Me” in a microblogging environment

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Highlights：

• We examine how microblogging users’ need for popularity affects their authentic online presence.

• Online authenticity is composed of sense of real me (SRME) and expression of real me (ERME).

• The greater the need for popularity (NFP), the lower the SRME and the ERME.

• Age and gender (being female) were negatively correlated with NFP.

• Age and gender (being female) were negatively correlated with both SRME and ERME.

摘要

•We examine how microblogging users’ need for popularity affects their authentic online presence.•Online authenticity is composed of sense of real me (SRME) and expression of real me (ERME).•The greater the need for popularity (NFP), the lower the SRME and the ERME.•Age and gender (being female) were negatively correlated with NFP.•Age and gender (being female) were negatively correlated with both SRME and ERME.

论文关键词：Authenticity,Need for popularity,Self-presentation,Gender,Microblogging,Twitter

论文评审过程：Available online 11 June 2015, Version of Record 11 June 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.037