
Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric

CSI: Cyber series about a forensic cyberpsychologist, based on the work of Mary Aiken.
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
In 2007 and 2008, the Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, and Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom launched the first graduate programs in cyberpsychology.
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
the study of the psyche or mind, cyberpsychology is the study of the cyber-psyche, the computer mind “out there” created by the fusion of humans and machines.
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking; Cyberpsychology: The Journal of Psychosocial Research; and the International Journal of Cyberbehavior.
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
When we perceive cyberspace as this extension of our minds, as a transitional space between self and other, a door opens for all sorts of personal expectations, fantasies, and desires to be projected into this realm.
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
How do individual people react to cyberspace? – How do people interact with each other online? – How do people behave in online groups and communities? – What is normal and abnormal behavior? – How can cyberspace promote mental health?
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
William Gibson, who popularized it in his 1984 debut novel Neuromancer,
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
a special kind of space created by computers – a “cyberspace.”
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
Azy Barak, Michael Fenichel, John Grohol, Robert Hsiung, Storm King, Gary Stofle, and Kimberly Young,