These are just three of the articles that have infuriated me in the past 24 hours. 4 deaths in the UK in the last 12 months, based on Ask.FM alone – and that’s just the ones reported on here. I…
Tag: internet
Online Images/Text – Young People
I would like your opinions on a sensitive and questionable issue that i have come across in my research. As you know, I’m focusing on attention seeking behaviours online. These behaviours are often displayed through photographs of the self (“selfies”),…
Untangling the Web
Here’s an interesting blog I follow on Tumblr. Aleks Krotoski has a PhD in Social Psychology and she looks at how the internet influences people and their relationships. She looks at some of the bigger, scarier, questions of what the…
Changes to DSM-5: Internet Gaming Disorder
APA DSM-5 (click link and see on right hand side new additions and changes) Just reading over a summary of the changes to various diagnoses in the DSM and came across Internet Gaming Disorder.. Thought it may be interesting for those looking at…
Digital Research Centers
Here are some digital research centers that i like to keep up to date with, i thought some of you might too! http://www.ccam-ascor.nl/index.php/en/ “Center for Children, Adolescents and the Media” is run by the University of Amsterdam. I came across…
Been Bored lately?
Been Bored lately? from The Age Social media and iPhones aren’t a cure for boredom so much as a distraction from it. And it is a distraction that has the twin effect of contributing in the end to the very…