Freshly Printed - allow 10 days lead
Couldn't load pickup availability
Psychology and the Internet
Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications
Do your Internet habits define you?
Jayne Gackenbach (Edited by)
9780123694256, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 17 October 2006
392 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg
"...the authors have taken readers on a real journey down an information-laden highway that leads to a fascinating, limitless world or virtual reality. Especially appreciated throughout the book is the attempt by the authors to support their viewpoints by making reference to empirical findings." --Richard Nicki, Canadian Psychology, October 2007
The previous edition provided the first resource for examining how the Internet affects our definition of who we are and our communication and work patterns. It examined how normal behavior differs from the pathological with respect to Internet use. Coverage includes how the internet is used in our social patterns: work, dating, meeting people of similar interests, how we use it to conduct business, how the Internet is used for learning, children and the Internet, what our internet use says about ourselves, and the philosophical ramifications of internet use on our definitions of reality and consciousness. Since its publication in 1998, a slew of other books on the topic have emerged, many speaking solely to internet addiction, learning on the web, or telehealth. There are few competitors that discuss the breadth of impact the internet has had on intrpersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal psychology.
1. The Internet in Context Part I Intrapersonal 2. Children and the Internet 3. Self Online: Personality and Demogrpahic Implications 4. Disinhibition and the Internet 5. The Psychology of Sex: A Mirror from the Internet 6. Internet Addiction: Does it Really Exist? (Revisited) Part II Interpersonal 7. Revisiting Computer--Mediated Communication for Work, Community, and Learning 8. The Virtual Society: Its Driving Forces, Arrangements, Practices and Implications 9. Internet Self-Help and Support Groups: The Pros and Cons of Text-Based Mutual Aid 10. Cyber Shrinks: Expanding the Paradigm Part III Transpersonal 11. From Mediatred Environments to the Development of Consciousness II 12. World Wide Brain: Self-Organizing Internet Intelligence as the Actualization of the Collective Unconscious 13. The Internet and Higher States of Consciousness--A Transpersonal Perspective
Subject Areas: Internet guides & online services [UDB], Geopolitics [JPSL], The self, ego, identity, personality [JMS], Occupational & industrial psychology [JMJ], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]
