DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2022.v10i05.008

Pages: 224-232

The forms of identity exploration tools and trends have been changed enormously with the rapid expansion of internet media and communication technology for the last decades. Modern dwellers are enthusiastically found to be exposed themselves in online social media through different types of digital contents for establishing their socio-situational identity every day. The random practice of sharing digital contents in online social media is not only a matter of technological instigation, but also a stimulation of late modern socio-situational condition in the process of forming identity for its’ users. Undoubtedly, the digital contents have reasonable grounds to be accepted and celebrated by the social media users in terms of their aptness in purpose. Guided by the spirit of modern technological advancement, the digital contents like digital compositions and photographs seem to occupy a huge amount of social media space today. Although the increasing endorsement and adoration of digital contents in the construction of socio-situational identity in online social platforms is alleged to manufacture a generation having less competence and compassion in the use of language in proper order, many scholars find the initiation however facilitating multidimensional avenues in the narration and construction of socio-situational self for the users. In this circumstance, with the help of recognized works and materials related to the fields, the study intends to investigate, interpret, and review the possible opportunities and challenges in the use of digital write-ups and photographs on the construction of socio-situational identity in online social media platforms.