Student’s impression management and self-presentation behaviours via online educational platforms: An archival review

Q2 Computer Science First Monday Pub Date : 2024-03-09 DOI:10.5210/fm.v29i3.13280

Beatrice Hayes, Aiman Suleiman, Dawn Watling

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Across global higher education contexts, students and staff are communicating online. Online communication is facilitated by the online disinhibition effect (reduction of nonverbal cues eases communication) and in turn this may make online self-presentation (behaviours used to present a desired version of the self) easier. Students may be utilising online self-presentation techniques to facilitate online communication with staff. We know that online self-presentation techniques can be advantageous, but where inappropriate they may be detrimental to the student-staff relationship. This study explores whether students are using self-presentation techniques when they communicate online with staff via an archival review of both private (e-mail messages) and public (Moodle forum posts) online educational environments. Through a deductive thematic analysis we identify that students are indeed using online self-presentation techniques but that these vary depending on whether the online educational environment is private or public. This is the first study to explore this topic via an archival review and we encourage future research to consider the role of online self-presentation techniques within student-staff communication.

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学生通过在线教育平台进行印象管理和自我展示的行为：档案回顾

在全球高等教育环境中，学生和教职员工都在进行在线交流。在线抑制效应（减少非言语暗示可促进交流）为在线交流提供了便利，反过来，这可能使在线自我展示（用于展示理想自我的行为）变得更容易。学生可能会利用在线自我展示技巧来促进与教职员工的在线交流。我们知道，在线自我展示技巧可能是有利的，但如果使用不当，可能会损害学生与教职员工之间的关系。本研究通过对私人（电子邮件信息）和公共（Moodle 论坛帖子）在线教育环境的档案审查，探讨学生在与教职员工进行在线交流时是否使用了自我展示技巧。通过演绎式主题分析，我们发现学生确实在使用在线自我展示技巧，但这些技巧因在线教育环境是私人环境还是公共环境而有所不同。这是第一项通过档案回顾来探讨这一主题的研究，我们鼓励未来的研究考虑在线自我展示技巧在师生交流中的作用。

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First Monday Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

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