Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan
Digital technologies are deeply embedded in everyday life with opportunities for information access and perpetual social contact now mediating most of our activities and relationships. This book expands the lens of Cyberpsychology to consider how digital
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Dave Harley · Julie Morgan Hannah Frith
Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan
Dave Harley School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton, UK
Hannah Frith School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton, UK
Julie Morgan School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton, UK
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Preface
Digital technologies and media play an increasingly central role in our everyday lives—from online shopping and banking, managing our bills and services, maintaining relationships with family and friends to creating new friendships and communities, and exploring who we are and how to show ourselves to others. Many of our mundane daily activities and interactions take place online, in virtual worlds, or mediated through digital technologies. The developing discipline of Cyberpsychology often struggles to keep apace with digital innovation and the ways in which these technologies are taken up, moulded, adapted and made sense of through everyday practice. This book emerged out of our experience of tea
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