Charles Cheung, Construction of identity and self-presentation on personal home pages: potential for emancipation and constraints of reality, edited by Gauntlett, D & Horsley, R in Web Studies Chapter 4, London: Arnold, (2004), pp. 53-68, ISBN: 9780340814727In the contemporary era of mass media, particularly in the era of Web 2.0, approaches to self-presentation have been, to some extent, closely linked to the Internet. With the emergence of personal home pages on the Internet, these have been considered as a new and popular access to express the identity of individuals, or even to reconstruct their identity. For this, individuals can produce any content to express themselves or share their hobbies and experiences. However, personal home pages have an ambiguous function in shaping individuals' identities. Charles Cheung's 2004 essay on identity construction and self-presentation on personal home pages is an apt example to show analysis of both the emancipatory potential and reality constraints of the page personal welcome. As the title suggests, this essay primarily discusses the relationship between personal home pages on the Internet and the construction of individuals' identities. This argument is developed by Barney and Darin the same year in the book Network Society. In the fifth chapter, Barney and Darin raised the same question: how personal identity will be constructed around the networked society. This was also related to The Power of Identity written by Castells in 1997, in which he analyzed several types of identities with the rise of the networked society called legitimizing identity, resistant identity and project identity. This essay written by Charles Cheung and ed... middle of paper ...... lies between the personal homepage and the construction of people's identity. She systematically analyzed the characteristics of online self-presentation via personal homepages using normal face-to-face interaction as a comparison. Additionally, the author has identified the factors that might influence users creating personal homepages based on some research and theories so that it is objective enough to consider these factors. While Cheung mainly highlighted Internet access and business ideologies as fundamental factors to influence users in creating their personal homepage, this still seems limited to some extent. More representative factors need to be explored and studied. However, this book and especially this chapter are worth reading for the study of the Internet and virtual space and its connection between realities..