What Is Cyberpsychology? 3 Things To Know About This Important Field of Study
Learn more about this burgeoning domain and understand why cyberpsychology matters in today’s cybertechnical world.
Cyberpsychology
"Every new technology offers an opportunity to ask if it serves our human purposes."
~ Founder and current director of
MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self, Sherry Turkle
Topics include:
Cyberpsychology, cyberethics, humane technology, experience and interaction design
The Plight of the Social Animal
Humans want to be liked, loved, and belong. Knowing this, the developers and designers of social media platforms have long exploited this delicately fragile human quality, to society's great detriment.
Cybertechnologies and Their Inextricable Nature to Cyberethics
Explaining the cybertechnology and cyberethics interplay is at the crux of building and deploying human technologies that protect reason and human autonomy.
3 Reimagined Ways I Wish Twitter’s Bookmarks Could Work (and Look!)
Ever wish Twitter's Bookmarking feature would work more intuitively? Me too! See my transformed interaction and feature experience for this helpful but undervalued Twitter feature.
5 Positive Psychology Elements of Facebook’s Interfaces and Platform Infrastructures
As social media users log in and out of their social apps, they are generally oblivious to the positive psychology-influenced elements social platforms weave into their interface designs.
Media & Cyberpsychologist M.R. McPherson, MA, MFA
About Me
I am a (near) Washington DC-based media and cyberpsychologist with over 20 years experience with interaction and application design. You can follow me on social media with the links below.
