Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
Cyberpsychologists strive to understand how online and offline behaviors differ, but more importantly, to understand the widening overlap between online and offline living.
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
To ask how we can use cyberspace is to ask how we can use life.
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
William Gibson, who popularized it in his 1984 debut novel Neuromancer,
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
we can think of cyberspace as a transitional space that blends the individual’s intrapsychic world with the electronic world – a space that is part me, part other – that provides a venue for play, creativity, and imagination.
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,
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
online disinhibition effect
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.