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Social Media State of Play and Why it Matters
Share This:Thank goodness for the Pew Internet and American Life Project which keeps us all up to date on the habits of Americans and their internet use. Just before the turn of the year researchers...
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Connected-Up Culture: the ubiquity problem
Share This:Our culture is more connected up than it ever was before, and for this there are consequences. The development of the technologies that we have is no accident. Nor, as I have argued in my...
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The Digital Economy of Recognition: on the extensions of the self into the...
Share This:Presentation given at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies 20th Anniversary Conference, University of Essex. As a former student and member of staff at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies...
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The Psyche of Social Networking: Id, Ego, and Superego
Share This:Today, it may seem a little bit reductive, but Freud’s “tripartite psyche” still gives us a model of the psyche that most people can relate to. No, you cannot find these three “psychic...
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The Psychodynamics of Social Networking [Video]
Share This:My aim in writing the book The Psychodynamics of Social Networking was to take the incredible ideas and theories produced by the world of contemporary psychotherapy and apply them to the...
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The Strongest Online Persuader You’ll Ever Encounter: Yourself
Share This:It’s time we were honest with ourselves about online persuasion, don’t you think? As every day passes, the online environment becomes more and more a part of our daily lives. With this being...
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Sadism on the Internet, what does it say about us?
Share This:For a long time there has been an increasing sense that Internet trolling has been growing out of control. Though the phenomenon has been around for some time, trolling rose to prominence in...
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Online Harassment – it’s not just media hype
Share This:If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might feel that by going online you’ll be subjecting yourself to all sorts of danger. Is the phenomenon of Internet trolling and cyber-bullying...
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Googleheads, Buzzfeed Boffins, and Mobile Mad: information, technology, and us
Share This:There are just a few weeks left in 2014, so perhaps it’s a good time to pause and think about ourselves and where we are, in relation to the rapidly developing technologies that surround us....
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The Psychology of Stranger Shaming
Share This:Novel words to describe new activities appear to be propagating at least as quickly as the new-fangled technologies that are responsible for these clever coinages. In 2013 the Oxford English...
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Internet Privacy is About More than Security: it’s about psychology too
Share This: Internet privacy probably isn’t quite the topic of concern that it probably ought to be. It strikes me that if people were really able to encounter the degree and specificity of what others...
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Checking your smartphone again? It’s an object of emotional supply
Share This: There it is, in your pocket itching away. Did you feel it buzz? Did you check it anyway, even if you didn’t feel it buzz? Just in case there was a notification you missed? Or perhaps...
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