Research On College Studengts Self-presentation In Renren.com

With the rapid development of Internet technology and extensive application, people's activity space extends from the specific geographical space to the virtual cyberspace, the interpersonal interaction's class cyberspace gradually becomes the new homeland that people to exchange the thought, establish sentiment and express themselves, thus receives more and more web cam's favors. At present, the renren.com in China is the biggest and most influential social interaction website. The university student, as the actor of renren.com, their interactive way which face-to-face is changed; the physical body is hidden, replaced by the writing, the picture, audio and other media. In the stage provided by the virtual network, the process of the university students that self-presentation presents has changed a lot compared with the traditional life space. Right now, the sociological explanation or the theory promotion the self- presentation in renren.com has an important academic value and the virtual reality significance. This study, through the real life experience, depth interviews and text analysis, has conducted the qualitative investigation of all college students self- presentation in renren.com. The process that renren.com extends from the share experience's technical medium to the stage of the self-image ,is also the process of the university students that from reprint other people's diary or the picture in renren.com to express individual mood, share experience, and finally record their daily lives, show the role of self- presentation, seek self-identity. Through the analysis in this microscopic filed to understood the characteristic of the social interaction website's that take renren.com as representative, what performance stage renren.com has provided to the university students; In this stage, their interactive way and the performance strategy has any change; As well as discusses the influence what university students'self-presentation in renren.com to the college student users. Finally, through self-presentation in renren.com, university students enhance interaction with friends, mutual understanding and feeling, the interpersonal relationship obtains further stably, finally achieve the purpose of seeking self-identity.