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Virtuális identitás (?) Az önmeghatározás és imázsépítés új lehetőségei
Virtual identity (?) – New ways of self-definition and image-constructions

Author(s): Orsolya Gergely
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: virtual identity, self-definition, image-construction, virtual community, virtual self

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the first results of a research effectuated among a “virtual community”. The author formulate a current social questions: how does affect the identity and personal image-construction a completely new, previously unknown communication platform, namely the self-presentation on a popular social network site. Lunches the idea of a a new kind of identity, starts the thought of discovering the characteristics of the "virtual self". As a result, the study aims to analyze a social network site, based on the analyze on the profile pages of a representative group of the iWiW-users in a small town from Transylvania.. The analysis of the user’s profile pages will result the socio-demographic description of the iWiW-users from Miercurea Ciuc The author is assistant professor at the Sapientia – Hungarian University from Transylvania, Department of Social Science, e-mail address: gergelyorsolya@sapientia.siculorum.ro

  • Issue Year: 7/2009
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 9-30
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Hungarian