
The Psychodynamics of Social Networking : Connected-up Instantaneous Culture and the Self.
Title:
The Psychodynamics of Social Networking : Connected-up Instantaneous Culture and the Self.
Author:
Balick, Aaron.
ISBN:
9781782411659
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Series:
The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- Introduction: putting it into context -- CHAPTER ONE Psychodynamics -- CHAPTER TWO On searching and being sought -- CHAPTER THREE The matrix -- CHAPTER FOUR Who's afraid of being an object? -- CHAPTER FIVE Being in the mind of the other -- CHAPTER SIX Identities are not virtual -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Over the past decade, the very nature of the way we relate to each other has been utterly transformed by online social networking and the mobile technologies that enable unfettered access to it. Our very selves have been extended into the digital world in ways previously unimagined, offering us instantaneous relating to others over a variety of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In The Psychodynamics of Social Networking, Aaron Balick draws on his experience as a psychotherapist and cultural theorist to interrogate the unconscious motivations behind our online social networking use, powerfully arguing that social media is not just a technology but is essentially human and deeply meaningful.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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