Self-Presentation in the Cyberspace: the Borders of Real and Fiction
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Alekseeva K.A. Self-Presentation in the Cyberspace: the Borders of Real and Fiction. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2019. Vol. 8. No. 2. P. 175-186. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23683/2227-8656.2019.2.13 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The development of communication technologies has led to the fact that people spend much of their time in the Internet, communicating with friends, colleagues. Because of this, the problem of virtual self-identification and self-presentation became.Virtual space is a huge variety of various sociocultural aspects of human life. It breaks up into many connected and not-connected different worlds in which each subject finds a place for himself.The individual in the new sociocultural environment has to think over what and how he will tell about himself in the virtual community. This paper reviews the boundaries between fictitious and real characteristics of the self-presentation. The research considers the key problems of creating virtual personality: anonymity on the Internet; allocation of a virtual personality carrier; voluntary and involuntary in the construction of the personality. Given the ways of distortion involved in the representation itself in cyberspace with the purpose of creating socially desirable or ideal personality. This paper considers the results of such mass information distortion by Internet users.The formation and modification of the virtual “ago” affects the real person, his “self” in real life. And the influence of the virtual “ago” on a real person can be both positive and negative. The article presents the most dangerous problems that a person faces in the process of socialization in the virtual space.
Keywords:
cyberspace, social network, self-presentation, internet communication, impression management, information technology, web space, new sociocultural environment
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Alekseeva, K. A. (2019). Self-Presentation in the Cyberspace: the Borders of Real and Fiction. Humanities of the South of Russia, 8(2), 175-186. https://doi.org/10.23683/2227-8656.2019.2.13
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY
