The Manipulation of Online Self-Presentation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction — Who Am I?

   • Alison Attrill

   Pages 1-13

3. Theoretical Considerations

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   Pages 14-33

4. Individual Factors and the Cyberself

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   Pages 34-50

5. Motivations for Sharing the Cyberself

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   Pages 51-67

6. The Social Cognitive Internet and the Cyberself

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   Pages 68-94

7. Back Matter

   Pages 95-114

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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.

• online self
• cyberself
• Internet landscapes
• Internet tools
• self-discrepancy theory
• regulatory focus theory
• hyperpersonal communication
• uses and gratification
• warranting
• social networking sites
• individual factors
• naïve psychologies
• motivations
• self-disclosure
• human belonging
• reciprocity
• voluntary and involuntary disclosures
• social capital
• impression management
• self-presentation
• Internet
• motivation
• Online
• psychology

• University of Wolverhampton, UK

  Alison Attrill

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.

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