this help express one’s identity to others and helps them make sense of it themselves.
Symbolic markers
refers to the identity, soul or spirit separate from physical body.
Internet/ Online disembodiment
Through the use of social media, people may act differently since interaction in social media do not happen face-to-face and there is no physical presence required.
Internet/ Online disembodiment
on the internet, people can be whoever they want to be. They can completely redefine themselves if they want. People don’t look at bodies or hear the access for them to make assumptions. All they see are the words. What goes online stays online. They are permanent digital footprints
Turkle (1995)
lets a person associate a persistent ID for a single user with that user’s engagement data from one or more sessions initiated from one or more devices.
User ID
also known as the login name, this is a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network or online account
Username
How people act online is not how people act in the real world.
Dissociative Imagination
a (virtual) person tends to assign traits to those individuals whom they meet online.
Solipsistic Introjection
They assign what the person looks or sounds like in their head which is an imaginary interaction with the introjected character.
Solipsistic Introjection
People don’t have to own (be responsible) to their own behavior by acknowledging it within the full context of who “they” really are.
Dissociative Anonymity
is a range of strategies that people adopt to shape what others think of them.
Self-presentation
the person who is using (blank) is trying to show that he/she is competent effective or a winner.
Self-promotion
the person is using (blank) in presenting oneself to others has a desire to be likable. They expect affection
Ingratiation
the person who is using (blank) has the intention to achieve worth from others. He/she expects others to feel guilty by their actions.
Exemplification
the person who is using (blank) tries to appear dangerous or ruthless. He/she expects others to be afraid of them.
Intimidation
the person using (blank) would like to appear helpless (handicapped or unfortunate). He/she aims to achieve nurturance from others
Supplication
refers to the tendency to think oneself in a favorable light.
Self-enhancement
It includes efforts to boost one’s physical appearance.
Self-enhancemen
Efforts to increase their appeal to others
Self-enhancement
Includes using ‘props’ to enhance their appeal to the whole world
Self-enhancement