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CMNS 421: Being Online (Rev. 5) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Internet Overview—Implications for “Being Online”

Ellerman, E. (2007). Chapter 1: The Internet in context. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.), Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications (2nd ed., pp. 11–33). Academic Press.

Unit 2: The Self Online—From Avatars to Selfies

Poster, M. (2007). The secret self: The case of identity theft. Cultural Studies, 21(1), 118–140.
Correa, T., & Jeong, S. H. (2011). Race and online content creation: Why minorities are actively participating in the Web. Information, Communication & Society, 14(5), 638–659.

Unit 3: Developmental Perspectives—Children, Parents, and the Elderly

Chassiakos, Y., Radesky, J., Christakis D., Moreno, M., Cross, C., & AAP Council on Communications and Media. (2016). Children and adolescents and digital media. Pediatrics, 138(5), e1–e18.
Twenge, J. M., Martin, G. N., & Campbell, W. K. (2018). Decreases in psychological well-being among American adolescents after 2012 and links to screen time during the rise of smartphone technology. Emotion, 18(6), 765–780.
Supplemental Data Tables for Twenge et al. (2018).
Hunsaker, A., & Hargittai, E. (2018). A review of Internet use among older adults. New Media & Society, 20(10), 3937–3954.
Davidson, J., & Schimmele, C. (2019). Evolving Internet use among Canadian seniors. Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series 2019015e. Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.

Unit 4: Relationships Online—From Friends to Lovers

Lamphere, R. D., & Lucas, K. T. (2019). Online romance in the 21st century: Deceptive online dating, catfishing, romance scams, and “mail order” marriages. In I. E. Chiluwa, & S. A. Samoilenko (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online (pp. 475–488). IGI Global.

Unit 6: Social Media—Community or Narcissism?

Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (2018). Teens, social media & technology 2018. PEW Research Center.
Kapoor, K. K., Tamilmani, K., Rana, N. P., Patil, P., Dwivedi, Y., & Nerur, S. (2018). Advances in social media research: Past, present and future. Information Systems Frontiers, 20(3), 531–558.
Malinen, S. (2015). Understanding user participation in online communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies. Computers in Human Behavior, 46, 228–238.
Beer, J. (2020, April 16). The new “New York Times” podcast “Rabbit Hole” sends you down one to see what the Internet does to us. Fast Company.

Unit 7: Deviance and Pathology—From Addiction to Bullying

Carli, V., Durkee, T., Wasserman, D., Hadlaczky, G., Despalins, R., Kramarz, E., Wasserman, C., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2012). The association between pathological Internet use and comorbid psychopathology: A systematic review. Psychopathology, 46(1), 1–13.
Kuss, D. J., & Griffiths, M. D. (2012). Internet gaming addiction: A systematic review of empirical research. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 10(2), 278–296.
Kassner, M., Wesselmann, E., Law, A., & Williams, K. (2012). Virtually ostracized: Studying ostracism in immersive virtual environments. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(8), 399–403.
Martin, R., Coyier, K., VanSistine, L., & Schroeder, K. (2013). Anger on the Internet: The perceived value of rant-sites. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 16(2), 119–122.
Langos, C., (2012). Cyberbullying: The challenge to define. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(6), 285–289.

Unit 8: Therapy and Health—Psychotherapy, Rehabilitation, and Self-Diagnosis

Kato, P. M. (2010). Video games in health care: Closing the gap. Review of General Psychology, 14(2), 113–121.
Kuehn, B. M. (2013). More than one-third of US individuals use the Internet to self-diagnose. Journal of the American Medical Association, 309(8), 756–757.
Migone, P. (2013). Psychoanalysis on the Internet: A discussion of its theoretical implications for both online and offline therapeutic technique. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 30(2), 281–299.

Unit 9: Theoretical and Future Speculations

Gackenbach, J. I., & Hakopdjanian, S. (2016). Breaking the frame of digital, dream, and waking realities. In S. Schafer (Ed.), Exploring the collective unconscious in the age of digital media (pp. 79–106). Information Science Reference.