Based on two decades of participant-observation field research in diverse online environments, this engaging book offers insights for improving lifestyles and enhancing wellbeing in the digital age. The author, a founder of the field of cyberpsychology, explains its fundamental principles, including online identity management, disinhibition, communication via text and photographs, intimacy and misunderstandings in online relationships, conflicting attitudes toward social media, addiction, deviant behavior, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and media overload. He provides a new framework, the Eight Dimensions of Cyberpsychology Architecture
, which researchers, students, and general readers interested in cyberpsychology can apply as a tool for creating and understanding different digital realms. The book focuses on the individual, shedding new light on our conscious as well as subconscious reactions to online experiences and our intrinsic human need to self-actualize.