Cyberpsychology

Hardback

Main Details

Title Cyberpsychology
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Ian Parker
Edited by Angel J. Gordo Lopez
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreImpact of science and technology on society
Virtual reality
ISBN/Barcode 9780333735763
ClassificationsDewey:150
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations XII, 256 p.

Publishing Details

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date 4 August 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This text explores the connections between modes of information and the management of the individual in the context of new technologies. Tracing historical and contemporary lines of argument, it brings together psychologists and cultural theorists working in the spheres of technology and subjectivity to explore links between popular culture, technoscience, feminism, ethics and politics. Each chapter engages with mainstream psychological research and critical social trends to explore such issues as the collapse of memory and creativity and the applications of virtual technologies to the lives of people with disabilities.

Author Biography

ANGEL JUAN GORDO-LOPEZ is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology IV at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the author of The Psycho-Techno-Complex: Psychological Boundary Objects and Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice: From Regulation to Resistance with Alldred et al (1996) and has contributed to The Cyborg Handbook (1995). IAN PARKER is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton Institute, where he directs the MSc in Critical Psychology. He has written widely in the field of critical psychology; his most recent publication is Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society.