Digital self Flashcards
(17 cards)
Is the persona you use when you’re online.
Digital self
Refers to anything that describes a persona an individual presents across all the digital spaces that he/she is represented in.
Digital identity
Express one’s identity to others, these are signals that represented the person offline such as hair, clothes and body modification.
Symbolic markers
Social media allows people to adopt identities independent of the bodies and the markers it contains.
Refers to the identity , soul or spirit separate from physical body. They are permanent digital footprints.
Internet disembodiment
SELF-REPRESENTATION STRATEGIES AND IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
- Self-promotion
- Ingratiation
- Exemplification
- Intimidation
- Supplication
A range of strategies that people adopt to shape what others think of them.
Self-representation
The person using this is trying to show that he/she is competent, effective or a winner.
Self-promotion
The person using this has an intention to achieve worth from others. He/She expects others to feel guilty by their actions. He/She stays at work late so that people will know that they are hard-working.
Exemplification
The person using this has adesire to be likeable. He/She often uses flattery and favours to make others like them.
Ingratiation
The person using this would like to appear helpless (handicapped or unfortunate). He/She aims to achive nurturance from others.
Supplication
The person using this tries to appear dangerous or ruthless. He/She expects others to be afraid of them.
Intimidation
Refers to the tendency to think of oneself in a favourable light, whereas impression management refers to a deliberate attempt to distort ones response in order to create a favourable impression with others.
Self-enhancement
Is defined as those capabilities possessed by individuals who are living, learning and working in a digital society.
Digital Literacy
People feel more relaxed, less restrained and tend to express themselves more openly. This phenomenon is known as?
Is the lack of restraint one feels when communicating online in comparison to communicating in person. This could have both positive and negative effects.
Online disinhibition
Two Categories of Online Disinhibition
- Benign disinhibition
- Toxic disinhibition
Bullying that takes place using electronic technology. It can be in the form of harassing, threatening, humiliating hassling of peers, spreading rumors, creating videos to make fun of others.
Cyberbullying
The use of information and communication technology to harass, control, manipulate or habitually disparage a child, adult, business or group without a direct or implied threat of physical harm. It is the adult form of cyber bullying.
Cyber Harassment
