The Psychology of Social Networking Vol.1

Personal Experience in Online Communities

Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9783110473780
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Psychology

Using a novel approach to consider the available literature and research, this book focuses on the psychology of social media based on the assumption that the experience of being in a social media has an impact on both our identity and social relationships. In order to 'be online', an individual has to create an online presence – they have to share information about themselves online. This online self is presented in different ways, with diverse goals and aims in order to engage in different social media activities and to achieve desired outcomes. Whilst this may not be a real physical presence, that physicality is becoming increasingly replicated through photos, video, and ever-evolving ways of defining and describing the self online. Moreover, individuals are using both PC-based and mobile-based social media as well as increasingly making use of photo and video editing tools to carefully craft and manipulate their online self. This book therefore explores current debates in Cyberpsychology, drawing on the most up-to-date theories and research to explore four main aspects of the social media experience (communication, identity, presence and relationships). In doing so, it considers the interplay of different areas of psychological research with current technological and security insight into how individuals create, manipulate and maintain their online identity and relationships. The social media are therefore at the core of every chapter, with the common thread throughout being the very unique approach to considering diverse and varied online behaviours that may not have been thus far considered from this perspective. It covers a broad range of both positive and negative behaviours that have now become integrated into the daily lives of many westernised country's Internet users, giving it an appeal to both scholarly and industry readers alike.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1 Psychology Of Social Media: FromTechnology To Identity
• 2 Peer and Professional Online Support forParents
• 3 Online Counseling for Migrant Workers:Challenges and Opportunities
• 4 Using Facebook: Good for Friendship But NotSo Good for Intimate Relationships
• 5 Communicatively Integrated Model of OnlineCommunity: A Conceptual Framework andEmpirical Validation on a Case of a Health-Related Online Community
• 6 Effects of Network Connections on Deceptionand Halo Effects in Linkedin
• 7 The Dark Side of Social Networking Sitesin Romantic Relationships
• 8 Making and Keeping the Connection:Improving Consumer Attitudes andEngagement in E-Mental Health Interventions
• 9 Intersubjectivity in Video Interview
• 10 Ethical and Regulatory Considerations ForSocial Media Research
• 11 Media Theories and the Facebook InfluenceModel
• 12 Social Networking and RomanticRelationships: A Review of Jealousy andRelated Emotions
• 13 What is Lurking? A Literature Review ofResearch on Lurking
• 14 Can Social Media Photos Influence CollegeStudents’ Sexual Health Behaviors?
• 15 Social Networks as a CommunicationTool from Children’s Perpective:A Twitter Experience
• 16 The Influence of Extraversionon Individuals’ SNS Use