Multiplicity in the Digital Mirror: Navigating Complex Online Identities among College Students

In today's post-digital society, college students often navigate a complex and multifaceted management of their image, presenting a different online digital identity and an entirely different offline identity, with the primary reason for this multidimensional identity being the creation of an idealized, utopian self. Through a survey of thirty-six participants, the study investigates how college students negotiate their online presence across various social media platforms, revealing patterns and tensions in their digital identity performances. This particular study seeks to analyse how college students position themselves regarding their online identities and the ways in which they express the multiple facets of their constructed utopian selves.