The Manipulation of Online Self-Presentation: Create, Edit, Re-edit and Present

by A. Attrill

Overview

This book explores psychological theories around the ways in which people present themselves online. The role of dispositional and situational factors along with the motivations that drive self-presentation across diverse Internet arenas are considered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137483416
Publisher:	Palgrave Pivot
Publication date:	03/04/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	248 KB

About the Author

Alison Attrill is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She researches online behaviour, specifically how individuals present, manipulate and control their online personae through self-disclosure and considered self-presentation in both textual and non-textual computer-mediated communication.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Who Am I? 2. Theoretical Considerations 3. Individual Factors and the Cyberself 4. Motivations for Sharing the Cyberself 5. The Social Cognitive Internet and the Cyberself