Cyberpsychology : The Effect of New Media on Identity and Attachment
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Authors
Wen, Yuanyuan
Issue Date
2012
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Thesis
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en_US
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This project investigates the question about what are the effects of using different
media platforms among teenagers via reading Sherry Turkle's book Alone Together and
other cyber psychology journals. To do so, it reviews recent literature related to
adolescent abusive use of social networking sites and self-presentation anxiety. Basically this paper discusses how people rely on technology more and more rather than each other. To many of people, the faked online identity is more symbolic than real identity. People try to make up some characteristic they don't have in the reality online, such as creating their avatars as "what they should look like" or "what others may like of me".
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30 p.
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