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Prosocial behaviors in the cyber context
Prosocial behaviors in the cyber context (i.e., the internet, text messages) can be traced back to when the internet was just a message board, used to share open source software. Following these early investigations of prosocial behaviors, clinicians recognized that the internet might remove barriers to help seeking. Recent investigations have provided support for the internet as a place to seek help among various populations. Prosocial behaviors in the cyber context also have benefits for the givers as well, including health benefits, personal satisfaction, and reputational increases. This chapter draws on multidisciplinary research to review prosocial behaviors in the cyber context.
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Azy Barak is well known for his prolific contributions to several areas of the literature dealing with psychological investigation of the Internet and related technologies, and also the exploitation of the Internet as a space in which the profession of psychology may be conducted. These efforts fall within the domain of what some call “cyberpsychology” – essentially, the application of psychology to the Internet – and that is the focus of this book. In this 300-page volume he has assembled an excellent collection of contributors, all familiar names who have done much to advance their respective fields of expertise. Many of the real pioneers in the area are represented here, bringing to the project a considerable depth and breadth of knowledge and experience. They are drawn from a variety of nations, institutions, and areas of psychology, and thus bring a variety of perspectives to the work.
The Use of Web-Based Social Networks: Trends, Antecedents, and Consequences
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Online Social Networks (OSNs) have redefined interpersonal relationships and added a new dimension to communication patterns. According to latest reports, there has been a steep rise in the number of active social media users around the globe. The present paper is a review of research evidence on the antecedent factors leading to such usage and its consequences thereof. Unique features of the virtual environment trigger certain personality traits which are reported to be major predictors of social networking behaviour. Studies on the impact of social media on consumers have unearthed both positive and negative consequences. Research findings, for example, reveal that social media consumption has a therapeutic effect in terms of fulfilment of certain needs and an increase in self-esteem; whereas activation of a narcissistic state and lowered self-control have an adverse effect on psychological well-being and behaviour. The paper summarizes the workplace implications of web-based soci...
1 Reflections on the Psychology and Social Science of Cyberspace
2000
Personal computers and computer networks began to take over offices and increasingly the public in the 1980s, but the extensive adoption of the Internet did not come about until the introduction of the first browsers and the over- whelming acceptance of Microsoft Windows and Apple systems - equipped with advanced graphics - both in the mid-1990s. The world changed in
Psychological Challenges of Cyberspace: A Systematical Review of Meta-analysis
Indian Journal of Health and Well-being, 2022
Controlling the antisocial conduct of the younger generation requires a thorough understanding of the difficulties posed by psychological factors. Through this, the measurement for prevention and treatment lowers the unfavorable consequences of cyberspace. A scholarly paper that provides an overview of the psychological and behavioral challenges of virtual space does not exist. It is very important to highlight this new area for the younger generation's prevention. The PRISMA methodology was used for systematic reviews of meta-analysis. Data was collected from the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE). That had 2904 documents. Sixteen documents were selected with the PRISMA rules. The data was analyzed using At list version 9 and Excel software for portraying the diagrams. The study discovered some evidence of psychological difficulties in cyberspace, including issues with family, motivation, and culture. The study provided evidence that the creation of cultures online has unintended consequences. Behavior modification Users' actions are altering negatively. Cyberspace demonstrated that users became disengaged from their tasks. Although the internet diminishes its users' dignity, the most complex situation is cyber sickness, which is worsening the problems for the users. Cyberspace separates users from the real world and keeps them occupied with fictitious circumstances in the virtual world. It is highly suggested that researchers highlight the negative effects of cyberspace and its side effects. The side effects of cyberspace must have awareness among the users.
The Internet and mobile phone have become the major ways of socializing in the 21st century. These media act as the social lifeline for users. The space or domain provided by the network of computers through satellite and telephone is typically referred to as the cyberspace. The cyberspace is therefore the domain for the exchange of data via networked systems. In the cyberspace, there is an interconnection of human beings through computers and telecommunication, without regard to physical geography. It is an intangible, virtual-reality domain. The cyberspace has been described as a new social space in which “young people congregate and affiliate to express their identity” (Cotrau, 2007, pp. 152). Many young people regularly engage in interactions through online media, such as: Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, Skype, Facebook, Blackberry, Twitter, Wikis, Whatsap, and so forth, The reality of the digital age is that almost everything people do, especially in the technologically-advanced places is technologicallymediated: relationships, education, career, health, financial management, information dissemination, governance, and so forth. In the course of interacting through these media, participants manifest different kinds of behavior that are somehow similar to those they exhibit in their daily face-to-face interactions, as they engage in leisure, play, work, shopping, sharing ideas and learning from others.
Cyberbehavior: A Bibliometric Analysis
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Cyberbehavior, as the object of study of cyberpsychology, refers to the set of human behaviors that require an electronic device with Internet access to interact with other persons in both synchronous and asynchronous way. Although the first studies of cyberbehavior took place with the popularization of the so-called “Social Web”, few works focus on reviewing this literature. This paper aims to provide a bibliometric review of the scientific publication on cyberbehavior by analyzing all the documents published by four of the most representative international journals on the topic. The results show that in spite of the growth of the scientific community, the research has focused on the use of Facebook and other social media, while relevant subject matters for psychologists (e.g., motivation, personality, Internet addiction, cyberbullying or self-expression) remainlittle explored.
O Brave New World: The Dark Side of Cyberspace
This article focuses on some of the negative aspects of cyberspace and cyberculture. First, it offers an examination of the impact of our use of social media, and Facebook in particular, on our psyches, pointing out that users of social media can be thought of as audiences. These audiences and information about them can be sold to marketers and advertisers. Next, it offers a case study of a widespread social problem in Japan, more than a million media-obsessed Japanese young men (and some young women), the hikikomori, who shut themselves off from society for months or years at a time. This is followed by a discussion of the impact of mobiles, primarily smartphones, on American adolescents, some of whom text one hundred messages a day to their friends. The effects of the enormous amount of face-time young people spend with screens-around ten hours per day-are also considered. Finally, there is an examination of the impact that Amazon.com, the leading e-commerce Internet site, has had on American shopping practices and American culture and society. The article concludes with a discussion of the work of Hubert Dreyfus about some negative effects of the Internet and, by implication, cyberspace and cyberculture, which, he argues, drain life of meaning.
The psychology of cyberspace: A socio-cognitive framework to computer-mediated communication
New Ideas in Psychology, 1997
The authors outline a framework for the study of computer-mediated communication defining three psychosocial roots by which the subjectivity of user is constructednetworked reality, virtual conversation and identity construction. This has resulted in new ways of describing Cyberspace, the virtual space inhabited by electronic network users.