Exploring the Influence of Computer-Mediated Environments and Social Aspects on Self-Resentation in Virtual Spaces
Yuning Zha · Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research · 2022
With the advent of the digital age, virtual spaces become people's indispensable living sphere and social networking sites become the salient vehicle for people to present themselves.To figure out key factors influencing individual behaviors in the new context, this paper uses a comprehensive view to examine how CMEs (computer-mediated environments), gender, and culture exert influence on virtual self-presentation.As a review of prior findings, this paper presents factors of virtual aspects and social aspects simultaneously, thus providing a new perspective to understand the influential mechanisms on virtual self-presentation, which may facilitate future research.This study synthesizes 19 articles from 1999 to 2020 related to the keywords on Google Scholar.The results manifest there is an association between CMEs and social aspects, the two of which exert influence on virtual self-presentation comprehensively.