FAQs

(( I last updated this FAQ in June 2023; I have numerous updates in progress and aiming to include additional, more expanded information by September 30, 2024 ))  

Cyberpsychology

  1. What is cyberpsychology?
  2. How is cyberpsychology different than other technology?
  3. What does a cyberpsychologist do?
  4. What are cyberethics?

Media Psychology & more

  1. What is media psychology?
  2. What is interaction design?
  3. What is social media psychology?

Artificial Intelligence

(coming soon)

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Answers for cyberpsychology

1) What is cyberpsychology?

A vital question, especially as Big Tech immerses us further into metaverses as well as other AI-laden and embodied experiences. 

2) How is cybertechnology different than other technologies?

Cybertechnology, in particular, encompasses a wide range of computing and interactive communications devices that engage human beings through mediated features. Examples include:

  • Social media networking
  • Affective computing
  • Augmented reality
  • Virtual communities
  • Content and blogging
  • Mobile computing
  • Computer games and online gaming
  • e-Commerce and online shopping
  • Telehealth & telemedicine
  • Cyberbullying
  • Epidemiological studies of Internet use and behavior
  • Cyberporn

3) What does a cyberpsychologist do?

  • A cyberpsychologist is someone who scientifically researches how cybertechnologies (see list above) influence our minds and our behavior. 
  • We use the insights from our research to help protect, nurture, and/or advance human-centeredness (instead of machine-centeredness) across human-machine touch points. 
  • Our research also aspires to understand the social, behavioral, and psychological impact of today's interactive technologies. 
  • Lastly, our research findings and ensuing analysis shed important light on noteworthy trends, ideas or risks worth attention in the context of human-machine relationships.

4) What are cyberethics?

Cyberethics refers to the moral implications of cybertechnologies. For a more expansive answer, howeer, please read my post here.

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Answers for Media Psychology & more

1) What is media psychology?

Media psychology is the study of how our creation, consumption, and distribution of media — namely through mediated technologies — influences our mind and thus, our behavior.

2) What is interaction design?

  • Broadly speaking, interaction design involves designing interfaces for technological products, namely at the level where humans and technology "meet" or interact. 
  • The general goal of interaction design is to facilitate seamless and graceful "technology touchpoints" so they are beautiful, emotive, functional, and easily fit into our everyday lives. 
  • The other side of the coin, however, is that despite its aesthetic presentations and best functional intentions, interaction designs also make technology (and its inner, computational parts and underpinnings) opaque. 
  • The latter point is key because interfaces, while simplifying processes or points of human-machine interaction, often prevent users from seeing the "guts of the machine" and, thus, limit/prevent users from having "full transparency" into the inner-workings of computational and automation machines.

3) What is social media psychology?

As a subset of media psychology, this discipline explores how our social media interactions can impact our identity, subjective wellbeing, and relationships with our social groups.

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