Overview
Discusses how digital technology has influenced human experience and relationships
Approaches cyberpsychology from a new angle
Explores how various life stages influence and are influence by digital technologies
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- cyberpsychology
- Online Identity
- Cyberbullying
- Digital Technology studies
- digital immersion
- media studies
- psychology of gaming
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Hyperpersonal theory
- Media Effects Research
- Digital exclusion
- older people and the internet
- Online Disinhibition Effect theory
- Problematic Internet Use (PIU)
- Rational Choice Theory (RCT)
About this book
Most psychological research has focused on whether human-technology interactions are a ‘good’ or a ‘bad’ thing for humanity. This book offers a distinctive approach to the emergent area of Cyberpsychology, moving beyond these binary dilemmas and considering how popular technologies have come to frame human experience and relationships. In particular the authors explore the role of significant life stages in defining the evolving purpose of digital technologies. They discuss how people’s symbiotic relationship with digital technologies has started to redefine our childhoods, how we experience ourselves, how we make friends, our experience of being alone, how we have sex and form romantic relationships, our capacity for being antisocial as well as the experience of growing older and dying. This interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners across psychology, digital technology and media studies as well as anyone interested in how technology influences our behaviour.
Reviews
“Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan is a solid and compelling work that makes itself conspicuous through criticism, inclusiveness, interdisciplinary perspectives, and sharp points of view. This book offers a distinguishable approach to Cyberpsychology, and it will be of great interest to anyone who wants to decipher the complex relationship between technology and our lives.” (Camelia Gradinaru, Europe's Journal of Psychology, Vol. 14 (4), 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Julie Morgan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research focuses on autobiographical memory, social anxiety and the development of social fears. She has also published research exploring the social dimension of nature-connectedness within mental health recovery.
Hannah Frith is Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research centres on sexuality, embodiment and subjectivity including constructions of sexual consent/non-consent, orgasm and sexual pleasure, and the meaning of sexual practices. She previously authored Orgasmic Bodies published by Palgrave in 2015.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan
Authors: Dave Harley, Julie Morgan, Hannah Frith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59200-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59199-9Published: 07 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95917-4Published: 25 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59200-2Published: 25 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 251
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Media Studies, Community and Environmental Psychology, Self and Identity