1
Q
Who Am I in the Cyber World?
- Family
- School
- Neighborhood
- Thus the emergence of the next domain
which is: - ONLINE LIFE
- Has altered the dynamics of self-identity,
- Mostly targeted on adolescents
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Domains of the Social World
2
Q
- More than half of the population worldwide
now uses the Internet. - Internet has already become an integral part
of everyday life for most of the world’s
population. - The Philippines is among one of the
countries with the most active Internet users. - More than half of the population worldwide
now uses the Internet. - Internet has already become an integral part
of everyday life for most of the world’s
population. - The Philippines is among one of the
countries with the most active Internet users
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The Online World
3
Q
- Defined as the self constructed at an online
setting - Has several characteristics such as:
- Oriented inward
- Narrative in nature
- Retractable
- Multipliable
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Digital Self
4
Q
Type of people you interact with online
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- People you do not know at all
- People you know both online and offline
- People you only know online
5
Q
General Use of Social Media Platforms
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- Social Browsing
- Social Searching
- Communication
- Impression management
6
Q
- The process by which a person present
themselves in an online manner that they want to - People are more likely to disclose their interest
rather than their feelings - This constrains the feedback that one receives
thus, influencing the self
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Self-presentation
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Q
- Is any behavior intended to create,
modify, or maintain an impression of
ourselves in the minds of others
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- Self–presentation behavior
8
Q
- Why do people engage in self-presentation?
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- Helps facilitate social interaction
- Enables individuals to attain material
and social rewards - Helps people privately construct desired
identities
9
Q
- Self-presentation is the “process of controlling how one is perceived by other people.”
- To construct positive images, individuals
selectively provide information about them and carefully cater this information in response to other’s feedback. - Sharing ourselves is no longer new and has been
practiced as soon as human beings were formed. - Digital devices help us share information broadly,
more than ever before. - We have entered an extraordinary era of
self-portraiture. In older family albums, the
photographer was not often represented in the album, whereas with arm’s-length photos, they are necessarily included (e.g., selfies and groupies). - Conversion of private diaries into public
revelations of inner secrets; the lack of privacy in many aspects of social media make the users more vulnerable. - Sharing the good things, the bad, embarrassing,
and “sinful” things we experience; we also react
and comment on negative experiences of others;
empathize with people; argue with others online. - Blogs and social media are the primary digital
fora on which such confessions occur, but they
can also be found in photo- and video-sharing
sites where blunders and bad moments are also
preserved and shared. - We should have a filtering system to whatever
information we share online, as well as to what
information we believe in, which are being shared
or posted by others online.
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Selective Self-presentation and Impression
Management
10
Q
- The attempt to control or influence any other people’s perceptions.
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Impression management
11
Q
- Two main motives of Impression management:
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- Instrumental
- Expressive
12
Q
- Gain rewards and increase self
esteem
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- Instrumental
13
Q
- Attempt to control one’s
behavior, a response to social
expectations
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- Expressive
14
Q
- Showing his/her competence
what strategies of impression management
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Self-promotion
15
Q
- Winning the acceptance of other
through different acts
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Ingratiation
16
Q
- Shows the dedication in one’s doing
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Exemplification
17
Q
- Showing authority or power
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Intimidation
18
Q
- Exploits own weakness to gain help or
benefits
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Supplication
19
Q
- The more time a person stays online, the lesser communication time with families (Kraut et al., 1998)
- Undermines subjective perception of well-being
and life satisfaction - Association of depressive symptoms
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Impact of online life
20
Q
- Found to be addictive, if stopped immediately
may show symptoms of addiction patients
suffering from abstinence syndromes such as:
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- Anxiety
- Insomnia
- Depression
- Restlessness
- Headaches
- Social isolation
- Irritability
- Poor Concentration
21
Q
What makes us so addicted?
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*Need for communication
*Need for sharing identities
*Need for social validation
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