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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 464 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-316-46155-6 , 1-316-46428-8 , 1-316-42407-3

Series Statement: Gale eBooks

Content: 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.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016). , Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Birth of Cyberspace -- The Birth of Cyberpsychology -- A New Architecture -- A Psychodynamic Cyberpsychology -- Walking a Mile in Online Shoes: Individual Differences and Subjectivity -- Insights without Numbers: Qualitative Research -- Interviews and Case Studies -- Field Research -- Participant-Observation Research -- Applying What We Know -- An Evolution of Immersive Studies -- Shape-Shifting at the Palace -- Encouraging Healthy and Educated Onliners -- The Soul of the Image -- Cities under the Sea -- 1 Cyberpsychology Architecture -- Cyberspace Is Psychological Space -- Connected and Distinct Worlds -- The Eight Dimensions of Cyberpsychology Architecture -- The Identity Dimension: Who Am I? -- Deciding Who You Are -- Being a Nobody or a Somebody -- Key Questions from the Identity Dimension -- The Social Dimension: Who Are We? -- Relationships Chosen and Unchosen -- Groups Are Us -- Key Questions from the Social Dimension -- The Interactive Dimension: How Do I Do This? -- Climbing the Learning Curve -- Machines That Betray and Control Us -- Key Questions from the Interactive Dimension -- The Text Dimension: What's the Word? -- When Words Fail -- When Words Succeed -- Key Questions from the Text Dimension -- The Sensory Dimension: How Am I Aware? -- Imitating and Defying Reality -- The Perceptual Feast -- Key Questions from the Sensory Dimension -- The Temporal Dimension: What Time Is It? -- Now or Later: Synchronicity and Asynchronicity -- Accelerated Time -- Frozen Time -- Ephemeral Time -- Intersected Time -- Key Questions from the Temporal Dimension -- The Reality Dimension: Is This for Real? -- Reality Is Illusive -- Key Questions from the Reality Dimension. , The Physical Dimension: Is This Tangible? -- Why Not Take All of Me? Dissociated and Integrated Physicality -- The Things, Portals, and Sensors of Cyberspace -- Augmented Reality -- The Boundary between the Spaces -- Key Questions from the Physical Dimension -- Applying the Theory of Cyberpsychology Architecture -- 2 Presence -- I Am Here: Environmental Presence -- I See, Hear, Feel It -- It Moves and Changes Around Me -- It Interacts with Me -- It Looks Familiar to Me -- Others Are Here: Interpersonal Presence -- I See, Hear, Feel You -- You Move and Change Right in Front of Me -- You Interact with Me -- You Look Familiar -- The Architecture of Presence -- One Size of Presence Does Not Fit All -- What Is Here and Now? -- The Mindfulness of Now -- 3 The Dynamic Digital Psyche -- Who Are You? -- This Thing Called Self -- The Molecular Me -- The Transcendent Me -- The Manifested Me -- The Sentient Me -- The Willing and Doing Me -- The Me That Is a We/Which Me Do We See? -- Good Me/Bad Me -- Real Me/Fantasy Me -- In and Out of Control of Me -- The Media Is Me -- The True and Essential Me -- The Personalities of Cyberspace -- Putting Me All Together: The Integration Principle -- Telling Online Companions about One's Offline Life -- Telling Offline Companions about One's Online Life -- Meeting Online Companions in Person -- Meeting Offline Companions Online -- Bringing Online Behavior Offline -- Bringing Offline Behavior Online -- Caveats about Integration -- Integration Means Balance -- The Compromised and Rescued Me -- The Symbiotic Me -- The Shallow Me -- The Susceptible Me -- The Disillusioned Me -- The Self-Correcting Me -- 4 The Disinhibited Self -- The Online Disinhibition Effect -- Benign and Toxic Disinhibition -- You Don't Know Me (Dissociative Anonymity) -- You Can't See Me (Invisibility) -- See You Later (Asynchronicity). , It's All Inside My Head (Solipsistic Introjection) -- It's Just a Game (Dissociative Imagination) -- Just between You and Me (Perceived Privacy) -- We're Equals (Attenuated Status and Authority) -- Everyone Else Thinks It's OK (Social Facilitation) -- Being Susceptible or Resistant to Disinhibition -- Leaks in the Perimeter -- The True Self as Illusion -- The Inhibiting Self Is True -- A True Self Here and There -- 5 Electrified Relationships -- Skeptics Beware -- Let's Make Sense: The Sensory Dimensions of Relating -- Can You Hear Me? -- Can You See Me? -- Can You Touch Me? -- Can You Smell and Taste Me? -- All Together Now -- Can You Read My Mind? -- Text versus Body -- Buttonized Relating -- All I Can Say Is "Wow" -- I Support You -- I Feel Good -- I'm Sorry -- Let's Make a Deal -- This Is Easy for Me -- Me Too -- I Disapprove -- I Like You -- Lost in the Buttonized Economy -- A Showdown between In-Person and Online Relationships? -- 6 Other Than You Think -- Mom, Dad, Machine -- The Machine as Your Parent -- You as the Parent to the Machine Child -- The Machine as the Wished-for Parent -- You as the Wished-for Parent to the Machine Child -- You Are Me, I Am You, We Are All Together -- Mom, Dad, and People Online -- The Out-of-the-Blue Message -- The Other through the Device -- Who Is Doing What to Whom? -- Perceiving Your Misperceptions -- Real and Imagined Online Lovers -- Playing at Love -- Genuine Love -- Preferring a Fantasy Lover -- Cybersex -- Futuristic Online Romances -- The He that Plays a She: Gender Swapping -- To Develop One's Femininity -- To Attract Attention -- To Understand Male/Female Relationships -- To Explore Homosexual or Bisexual Feelings -- The She Who Plays a He -- To Find Out How Other Females Act with Men -- To Practice as a Seductive Male -- To Run a Clan -- To Experience More Power than in Real Life. , Resolving Online Conflicts -- Do Not Respond Right Away -- Read the Message in Different Voices -- Discuss the Situation with Someone Who Knows You -- Choose Whether or Not You Want to Respond -- Assume Good Will -- Beware of Trolls and Bullies -- Clarify What the Person Meant -- Think about What You Want to Accomplish -- Use "I" and Feeling Language -- Choose Your Words Carefully -- Place Yourself in the Other Person's Shoes -- Use Emoticons or Images -- Start and End your Reply with Positive Statements -- Connections and Disconnections -- Black Hole Experiences -- 7 Text Talk -- A New Kind of Relationship -- Text Talk Skills, Styles, and Attitudes -- Text Talk Personalities -- Novice to Pro Text Users -- Text Talk Is Blind and Deaf -- Text Talk Bends Time -- Text Talk Can Be Preserved -- Long to Short Text Talk -- The Anatomy of Text Talk Nuances -- The Sender's Name -- The Message Title -- The Greeting -- The Message Body -- Creative Keyboarding -- Quoted Text -- Rich Text -- The Sign-off Line and Name -- The Signature Block -- An Email Makeover -- From Chat to Texting -- In and Out of Sync -- Staccato to-the-Point Speak -- Just between You and Me -- Deep Text -- Text Talk Goes Mobile -- The Woes and Pros of Texting -- Not Too Fast and Not Too Slow -- The Clear Text Message -- Beware of Emotional Texting -- Different Cultures, Different Customs -- 8 Image Talk -- Insights from Photosharing Aficionados -- Images versus Words -- Images as Self -- Going Public with Your Self -- The Wow Factor -- The Subject Matters -- The Psychological Picture -- It's All about Appearances -- The Secret Life of Self-Portraits -- Did I Shoot Myself? -- Why Not Take All of Me? -- Me Observing Me -- A Glimpse into Johari's Window -- People's Opinions of Me -- The Spontaneous or Carefully Composed Me -- The Superficially Narcissistic Selfie -- The March of Selfies. , The Visual Flow -- Organizing Oneself -- Swimming the Image Stream -- Our Conscious Mind Goes Numb, but Not Our Unconscious -- High and Low Responders to the Flow -- Individual Differences Trump "Pop" -- We Long for Oneness and Tranquility -- Dream Images Trigger Negative Feelings -- It Is Meant to Be Like This -- Use Your Words -- Creating a Title for a Photo -- Creating a Description for a Photo -- Words Create Relationships More So Than Images -- Commenting on a Photo -- Photos as Therapy -- 9 I, Avatar -- Gmuks and Second Lives -- Avatars that Hide, Reveal, and Transform -- All Shapes and Sizes -- Animal Avatars -- Cartoon Avatars -- Celebrity Avatars -- Evil Avatars -- Real Face Avatars -- Idiosyncratic Avatars -- Environmental Avatars -- Power Avatars -- Seductive Avatars -- Odd and Shocking Avatars -- Clan Avatars -- Inanimate Avatars -- Animated Avatars -- Avatar Evolution -- Taking It Personal -- That's Me All Over: Avatar Collections -- The Small Gray Owl -- The Earth -- James Taylor -- Freud Wearing a Propeller Beanie -- Dressed to the Nines -- Hercules Taming Cerberus -- The Home and Experimental Avs -- Social Grease -- Aberrant Avs -- Graffiti -- Spoofing -- Flooding -- Blocking -- Sleeping -- Eavesdropping -- Borderlines -- Flashing -- Droppings -- Imposters -- Identity Disruption -- Dancing around the Core -- The Background Is Not Just Wallpaper -- Feeling the Space -- Doing the Space -- Let's Get Physical -- Inside or Outside the Avatar -- 10 One of Us -- The Path of the Palace -- Settling a New Land -- The Snert Invasion -- Classes and Cliques -- The Wizards Fly by the Seat of Their Pants -- Cycles and Stages -- Geezers and the Essential Questions -- How Does the Founder Shape the Group? -- What Psychological Needs Does the Group Address? -- How Does the Composition of Members Affect the Group?. , How Do the Emerging Leaders Affect the Group?. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-56994-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-12874-9

Language: English

Subjects: General works

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316424070