The psychodynamics of social networking : connected-up instantaneous culture and the self /

The psychodynamics of social networking : connected-up instantaneous culture and the self /

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Author / Creator:	Balick, Aaron.
Imprint:	London : Karnac, 2014.
Description:	xxxv, 188 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Psychoanalysis and popular culture series Psychoanalysis and popular culture series.
Subject:	Online social networks -- Psychological aspects. Internet -- Psychological aspects. Internet -- Social aspects. Internet -- Psychological aspects. Internet -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9345042

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ISBN:	9781780490922 1780490925
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index.
Summary:	"Over the past decade, the very nature of the way we relate to each other has been utterly transformed by online social networking and the mobile technologies that enable unfettered access to it. Our very selves have been extended into the digital world in ways previously unimagined, offering us instantaneous relating to others over a variety of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In The Psychodynamics of Social Networking, Aaron Balick draws on his experience as a psychotherapist and cultural theorist to interrogate the unconscious motivations behind our online social networking use, powerfully arguing that social media is not just a technology but is essentially human and deeply meaningful." -- Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
About the Author
Series Editors' Preface
Introduction: Putting it into context
Chapter 1. Psychodynamics
Chapter 2. On searching and being sought
Chapter 3. The matrix
Chapter 4. Who's afraid of being an object?
Chapter 5. Being in the mind of the other
Chapter 6. Identities are not virtual
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index