Cyberpsychology: The Study of Individuals, Society and Digital Technologies

An important new BPS Textbook in Psychology exploring the interactions between individuals, societies, and digital technologies Outlines key theories and empirical research within cyberpsychology and provides critical assessments of this rapidly changing field Identifies areas in need of further research and ways to use digital technologies as a research tool Covers topics such as online identity, online relationships and dating, pornography, children s use of the internet, cyberbullying, online games and gambling, and deception and online crime Engaging and accessible for students at the undergraduate and graduate level with real life examples, activities, and discussion questions INDICE: 1 Introduction .2 The Self in Cyberspace .2.1 Defining the Self .2.2 Self in cyberspace .2.3 Disembodied selves in cyberspace .2.4 Cyborg self .2.5 Goffman: Performing self online .2.6 Possible selves in cyberspace .2.7 Social identities in cyberspace .2.8 Visually anonymous? .2.9 Conclusions .3 Online Relationships .3.1 Traditional relationships: Offline realm .3.2 Applying old theories to online relationships .3.3 New theories to explain online relating .3.4 Brief history of online relating .3.5 Contemporary online spaces .3.6 Interacting in different spaces .3.7 Future development in the field .3.8 Conclusions .4 Online Dating .4.1 What is an online dating site? .4.2 Motivations for using an online dating site .4.3 Psychological characteristics of online daters .4.4 Comparing online dating sites with persona ads .4.5 Presenting oneself on an online dating site .4.6 Dating deception .4.7 A perfect match or a numbers game? .4.8 Stages in the online dating process .4.9 Conclusions .5 Online Sexual Activities .5.1 The beginnings of Internet sex .5.2 Triple A Engine .5.3 Cybersex: debilitating or liberating? .5.4 Interactive sex entertainment .5.5 Cybersex addiction .5.6 Internet enabling risky offline sexual encounters .5.7 Internet and sexual health information .5.8 Social support and exploring sexuality .5.9 Teens and risky sexual online behaviour .5.10 Teledildonics and the future of sex in cyberspace .5.11 Conclusions .6 Internet Infidelity .6.1 Defining Internet infidelity .6.2 Unfaithful sexual online activities .6.3 Virtual or real? .6.4 Emotional infidelity .6.5 Gender differences: Which is worse sex or love? .6.6 Qualitative differences between online and offline affairs .6.7 Virtual affair with an avatar .6.8 Conclusions .7 Children and Teens use of Digital Technologies .7.1 Internet usage .7.2 The digital divide .7.3 Digital technologies: Harmful or empowering for young people? .7.4 Illegal content/illegal activities .7.5 Cyberbullying/cyberharassment .7.6 Scams, children and teens .7.7 Identity development .7.8 Activism .7.9 Radicalization .7.10 Conclusions .8 Online Education .8.1 Technology and learning .8.2 E–learning .8.3 E–learning versus face–to–face learning .8.4 Synchronous and asynchronous communication within e–learning .8.5 Media richness theory .8.6 Salmon s stage model of e–learning .8.7 3–D learning environments .8.8 Conclusions .9 Leisure and Entertainment .9.1 What is leisure and what motivates our pursuit of it? .9.2 Online family leisure .9.3 Older adults .9.4 Technoference: Encroaching on leisure time within relationships .9.5 Telecommunication .9.6 Time and functional displacement effects .9.7 Twitter .9.8 Conclusions .10 Online gaming and gambling .10.1 Internet addiction .10.2 Internet gambling addiction .10.3 Internet gaming addiction .10.4 Aggressive video games .10.5 Transcending taboos: video games .10.6 Games for learning .10.7 Conclusions .11 Online Deception .11.1 Defining deception .11.2 Deception in cyberspace .11.3 Do we lie more online? .11.4 Detecting deception .11.5 Conclusions .12 Online crimes: Scams, fraud and illegal downloads .12.1 Phishing .12.2 Vhishing .12.3 Why are people tricked by phishing .12.4 Improving detection .12.5 Mass–marketing fraud (MMF) .12.6 Awareness campaigns .12.7 Cognitive and motivational errors .12.8 What type of person is more susceptible to MMF? .12.9 Stages involved in the Online Dating Romance Scam .12.10 Illegal downloads .12.11 Conclusions .13 Online crimes: Cyberharassment, hate crimes and cyberwarfare .13.1 Online harassment and stalking .13.2 Cyberstalking and the law .13.3 Psychologically profiling criminals and victims .13.4 Hate crimes .13.5 Cyberwarfare .13.6 Surveillance and monitoring .13.7 Conclusions .14 Online crimes: child pornography, paedophilia .14.1 The Internet and the increase in child pornography .14.2 Child pornography and the law .14.3 Pseudo–photographs .14.4 Types of child pornography offenders .14.5 Characteristics of the child pornography offender .14.6 The relationship between child pornography and hands–on offending .14.7 Theoretical approaches to child pornography offending .14.8 Conclusions .15 Online Support and Health Care .15.1 The Internet and health .15.2 Characteristics and motivations .15.3 Online health searching and cyberchondria .15.4 Social media, group forums and support sites .15.5 e–therapy .15.6 Assessing the effectiveness of e–therapies .15.7 Immersive virtual environments as an aid to treatment .15.8 Conclusions .16 Concluding thoughts .References .Index

• ISBN: 978-0-470-97562-6
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés