Self-presentation and impression management through virtual identity construction A descriptive study of a sample of the identities of Algerian youth on the Facebook network as a model.-

Abstract

This study is concerned with revealing the methods of youth presenting themselves and managing impressions about them through social networking sites - Facebook as a model - according to the concepts of display and impression management that came from the dramatic perspective proposed by the sociologist "Erving Goffman".

   The study concluded that evoking the concepts of display and impression management in the context of the study of virtual identities enables one to understand the process of presenting oneself within the theater of virtual life, as this is done through many visual elements that correspond to the process of physical presence and direct interaction in real life. Controlling the audience to which users memorize elements of their visual identity, as well as by controlling the privacy of publications.