ABSTRACT

Communication technologies such as text-based chat, blogs, virtual reality, and avatars allow people to present deviations from their offline personality or appearance, causing changes to their personality perceptions and social behavior. This review of self-transformation through online self-presentation explores two major paradigms – the discursive approach and the embodiment approach – in terms of the theories on which they draw. It also examines differences and inconsistencies within and between these paradigms with respect to six factors that different studies suggest as critical for self-transformation. It reviews empirical research examining these critical factors, and provides a roadmap for future research testing competing explanations and their generality or specificity across digital platforms.

摘要

基于文本的聊天、博客、虚拟现实和化身等通信技术允许人们呈现与其离线个性或外表的偏差，从而导致他们的个性感知和社会行为发生变化。这篇通过在线自我展示对自我转化的回顾探讨了两种主要范式——话语方法和体现方法——就它们所借鉴的理论而言。它还检查了这些范式内部和之间的差异和不一致，涉及不同研究表明对自我转变至关重要的六个因素。它回顾了检验这些关键因素的实证研究，并为未来研究测试相互竞争的解释及其在数字平台上的普遍性或特异性提供了路线图。