Research On The Construction Of Self-identity In The Media Participation Of "Fitness Women"

Social Media has become an important research background of self-presentation and impression management,and it has become a trend of "body-builders" to display self-body-building activities in the form of "body-building photos" and "body-building Punch cards".With the help of Internet social networking,more women are joining the gym,especially those in the fitness zone.In this study,we conducted 28 semi-structured interviews with healthy women aged 17 to 40 about their participation in the media.This study explored women's self-identity in strength training through the use of social media.Based on the data of28 interviews,this paper focuses on the characteristics of media participation,and explores how this activity Constructs self-online identity? And on the basis of Gofman's self presentation and Giddens' s theory of self identity,to study the construction of self identity?The first part mainly understands the interviewees' media participation motivation,with the pursuit of fashion trends,self-narrative,social and self-satisfaction as the main motivation.The reasons for not showing are privacy issues and lack of interest.Further understanding of the display content and platform,mainly distributed in two micro-one shake three major platform,followed by the main social platform for the movement.Display content tends to be mainly in the form of pictures,composition to full-body photos,body parts,punching,contrast-based,picture background can highlight the fitness status.The second part mainly focuses on the self-construction of the female strength training crowd as a probe point,analyzing how women recognize themselves,produce themselves and construct themselves in the social network,and by "Realistic Self","ideal self","body image" and other concepts supplemented with interpretation.The third part mainly explores how the unity of self and others' evaluation Constructs self-identity by analyzing the content of self-presentation and the interaction with others.The results showed that comments,likes,private messages,encouragement,support,and suggestions were received through self presentation,which in turn influenced the diversity of roles of others through feedback,leading to a unified evaluation.The fourth part mainly uses the transformation of "front stage" and "back stage" as the construction way,the individual self's professional role and the social role given by "front stage",under the independent and influence function,constructs the self-identity.For individual differences,Wechat as the "Front" and other social platforms as the "backstage" form.The fifth part explains the positive effects of using social media to display self on self-identity,to motivate and support self,as well as the negative effects of self-body dissatisfaction.The influence on others is manifested in the influence on others' fitness concept and fitness behavior.Finally,the study finds that the media participation behavior of the interviewees is different from the individual,and the self-presentation in the media participation is diversified and pluralistic,and self-identity is constructed in a multi-way.