Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad

Using a detailed content analysis of his public commentary, public social media posts, and captured ephemeral social media, this paper argues that Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has strategically constructed a public persona as an active, engaged and concerned parent. While this parenting persona em...

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Main Author: Leaver, Tama
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91411
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description Using a detailed content analysis of his public commentary, public social media posts, and captured ephemeral social media, this paper argues that Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has strategically constructed a public persona as an active, engaged and concerned parent. While this parenting persona emerges from a relatively typical combination of professional and personal/parenting content, I argue this persona has been strategically developed to be leveraged as Meta pursues ‘Instagram Kids’ or other apps aimed at under13s which ostensibly empower parents as initial moderators of the children’s online experiences but are simultaneously rich sources of children’s personal data and activity, something of great monetizable value to Instagram and parent company, Meta.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-914112023-04-18T07:08:24Z Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad Leaver, Tama Using a detailed content analysis of his public commentary, public social media posts, and captured ephemeral social media, this paper argues that Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has strategically constructed a public persona as an active, engaged and concerned parent. While this parenting persona emerges from a relatively typical combination of professional and personal/parenting content, I argue this persona has been strategically developed to be leveraged as Meta pursues ‘Instagram Kids’ or other apps aimed at under13s which ostensibly empower parents as initial moderators of the children’s online experiences but are simultaneously rich sources of children’s personal data and activity, something of great monetizable value to Instagram and parent company, Meta. 2022 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91411 10.5210/spir.v2022i0.13039 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ fulltext
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Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad
title Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad
title_full Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad
title_fullStr Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad
title_full_unstemmed Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad
title_short Adam Mosseri: Constructing Instagram's Top Dad
title_sort adam mosseri: constructing instagram's top dad
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91411