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
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
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
a special kind of space created by computers – a “cyberspace.”
John Suler • 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
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.