'If I Post Stories with Fire, It's for You': Adolescent Flirting Strategies on Instagram

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Title: 'If I Post Stories with Fire, It's for You': Adolescent Flirting Strategies on Instagram
Language: English
Authors: Irantzu Recalde-Esnoz, Concepción Carrasco Carpio (ORCID 0000-0002-5605-4468), Kristel Anciones Anguita
Source: Youth & Society. 2024 56(4):693-712.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Media, Dating (Social), Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Audience Response, Social Life, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Communication Strategies
Geographic Terms: Spain
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X231190425
ISSN: 0044-118X
1552-8499
Abstract: With the expansion of social media and the multiple possibilities for communication they offer, flirting is increasingly developing online. The aim of this article is to analyze how the adolescent population uses Instagram to initiate and develop courtship. For this, the results of 14 focus groups held in Secondary Education Institutes in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), in which a total of 114 students between the ages of 12 and 17 participated, are analyzed. The results show that the online courtship game has its own rules and strategies. The most common Instagram strategies are: "best friends," the use of songs, and direct appeal for audience response. The results show that social interactions continue to be influenced by regulated and stereotyped social patterns.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1420015
Database: ERIC
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