Charles Cheung, Identity construction and self-presentation in personal web pages: emancipatory potentials and reality constraints, 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, especially in the era of web 2.0, approaches to self-presentation have to some extent been closely linked to the Internet. With the emergence of personal home pages on the Internet, this has been regarded as a new and popular access to express individuals' personal identity or even reconstruct their identities. This is why individuals can produce any content to express themselves or share their hobbies and experiences. However, there is an ambiguous function of personal home pages in shaping the identity of individuals. Charles Cheung's 2004 essay on identity construction and self-presentation on personal home pages is an appropriate example to showcase analysis of both the emancipatory potential and reality constraints of personal home pages. As the title indicates, this essay mainly discusses the relationship between personal home pages on the Internet and the construction of individuals' personal identity. This topic is highlighted by Barney and Darin in the same year in the book Network Society. In the fifth chapter, Barney and Darin had raised the similar question of how personal identity will be constructed around the networked society. The power of identity written by Castells in 1997 is also connected to this, in which he analyzes different types of identity with the rise of the network society called legitimizing identity, resistant identity and planning identity. This essay written by Charles Cheung and ed...... middle of paper ......navigates between the personal home page and the construction of people's identity. It systematically analyzed the characteristics of online self-presentation through personal home pages, using normal face-to-face interaction as a comparison. Furthermore, the author highlighted the factors that could influence users creating personal homepages based on certain research and theories, so that it is objective enough to take these factors into consideration. Considering that Cheung primarily identified Internet access and commercial ideologies as key factors influencing users to create personal homepages, this still seems somewhat narrow. More representative factors need to be explored and investigated. However, this book and especially this chapter constitute noteworthy reading for the study of the Internet, virtual space and its connection between realities..