A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SELF DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ROMANIAN ONLINE SPACE
Keywords:
personal development, online spaceAbstract
The personal development represents more than a simple literature genre, the implications of this in diverse plans must be analysed. Starting from this assumption, through this research we have proposed an analysis of self development of the Romanian online space, using content analysi (quantitative and qualitative). So, through this approach, we identified a set of common characteristics, patterns, of the writings from this field of the Romanian online space: the using of lists, questions-answers rhetoric, the “what?”, “why?”, “how?” approach, the use of examples, the urge to experience and experientiality, the use of quotes and examples (both personal and from celebrities lives), also common subjects regarding success and failure, education, couple and interpersnonal relationships, formal and informal education, career and work relationships. This paper could be in the area of interest of speciliats from other fields for research the self development from other perspective.References
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