Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships

ISBN-13: 9781403945143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str.

Monica Whitty

Opis

This book focuses on online relationships and specifically cyber-flirting; the authors examine how flirting offline can be transferred to an Internet setting, through their own empirical and theoretical research. The authors draw from psychoanalytic theory to provide a better understanding of cyber-flirting, online dating, and relationships on the Internet.

Spis treści

Cyber-relationships, The Story so Far.- From Courtly Love to Cyber-flirting.- Playing at Love: Winnicott and Potential Space.- Object Engagement and Dysfunctional Aspects of Relating Online.- Cyber-cheating: Can We Really be Liberated in Cyberspace?.- Deviance and Cyberspace.- Online Dating: Shopping for Love on the Internet.- Characters and Archetypes in Cyberspace.- Visions of the Future.

O autorze

MONICA T. WHITTY is Lecturer in Psychology at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She lectures on cyberpsychology, social psychology and qualitative methods. Her major research interests include online dating, cyber-relationships, Internet infidelity, identity, misrepresentation of self online, cyber-stalking, cyber-ethics, and internet and email surveillance in the workplace.

ADRIAN N. CARR is Associate Professor and holds the research-only position of Principal Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Australia. His major area of research is psychodynamic theory and its implications for organizational application.