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…

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…