self-presentation

American  

[self-pre-zuhn-tay-shuhn, -pree-] / ˈsɛlfˌprɛ zənˈteɪ ʃən, -ˌpri- /

noun

1. the act of presenting or introducing oneself to others, especially in social or professional contexts.

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Example Sentences

Her roles in the 1950s diminished in plausibility, and Crawford’s acting stiffened into rigid self-presentation.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s mostly communicated through her ICE photo ops, where Noem uses her self-presentation as a cartoonishly exaggerated icon of white femininity as a visual contrast to the darker-skinned immigrants her agents are arresting for real-life concentration camps, which the administration is euphemistically calling “detention centers.”

From Salon

In the wonderful, Cambridge-set “Ludwig,” David Mitchell, best known here for “Peep Show,” “Upstart Crow” and as an irascible team captain on the panel show “Would I Lie to You?,” plays John Taylor, a professional inventor of puzzles — awkward, timid, with no social life and a disconnect from and disdain for modern times that Mitchell’s own self-presentation sometimes suggests.

From Los Angeles Times

Counterintuitively, it’s formally conservative; whatever the subject, one mockumentary now looks quite a bit like another, with the side eyes and addresses to the camera and a sometimes desperate self-presentation on the part of its characters.

From Los Angeles Times

Author Gershom Mabaquiao explains that the trend started off being about "the unseriousness of self-presentation", but since it has become bigger than social media and permeated society, it's being interpreted in a "very literal way".

From BBC