Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
Cambridge University Press, 11/19/2015
EAN 9781107569942, ISBN10: 110756994X
Paperback, 480 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Based on two decades of participant-observation field research in diverse online environments, this engaging book offers insights for improving lifestyles and enhancing wellbeing in the digital age. John R. Suler, a founder of the field of cyberpsychology, explains its fundamental principles across a wide variety of topics, including online identity management, disinhibition, communication via text and photographs, intimacy and misunderstandings in online relationships, conflicting attitudes toward social media, addiction, deviant behavior, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and media overload. He provides a new framework, the 'Eight Dimensions of Cyberpsychology Architecture', which researchers, students, and general readers interested in cyberpsychology can apply as a valuable tool for creating and understanding different digital realms. Psychology of the Digital Age focuses on the individual, shedding new light on our conscious as well as subconscious reactions to online experiences and our intrinsic human need to self-actualize.
List of figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
newborns in evolution
1. Cyberpsychology architecture
2. Presence
be here now
3. The dynamic digital psyche
4. The disinhibited self
5. Electrified relationships
6. Other than you think
interpersonal perceptions
7. Text talk
8. Image talk
9. I, avatar
10. One of us
groups and communities
11. Change and excess
12. Addicted or devoted
13. The digital deviant
14. Synthesized realities and synthesized beings
15. Electric therapeutics
Conclusion
research and the researcher
References
Index.