Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan
Julie Morgan author Hannah Frith author Dave Harley author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:25th Jul '19
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Digital technologies are deeply embedded in everyday life with opportunities for information access and perpetual social contact now mediating most of our activities and relationships. This book expands the lens of Cyberpsychology to consider how digital experiences play out across the various stages of people’s lives.
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.
“This text moves beyond the aim of other books in the realm of cyberpsychology that parse the positive and negative impacts of technology, incorporating a broad range of topics … . Written in a clear, seamless fashion, the text uses the complex topic of cyberpsychology to illuminate how context and motivation help shape the social and psychological experience of the user. This text is extensively researched and well documented, and will appeal to scholarly and general audiences alike.” (J. Bailey, Choice, Vol. 56 (5), January, 2019)
“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)
ISBN: 9781349959174
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
251 pages
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018