Essays on Cyberpsychology

How Have Smartphones Changed American Society and My Life

The appearance of smartphones is a very interesting phenomenon from any point of view. The most important one, to my mind, is how they affected the way people socialize. The communication became really easy: now, every person can make a call or text anyone almost in every other place in the world! It made the whole idea of "distance" in communication altered. Today, you don't have to wait for a couple of days for your letter to arrive to addressee – it's almost instant. In the United States their influence can be easily spotted due to the wide spread of ...

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between social networking and face-to-face communication with respect to their influence on the social interaction skills. The first aim of the research has to determine whether there is a causal relationship between use of social networking tools and face-to-face communication behaviors. The research aims to investigate the hypothesis. There will be a statistically significant difference in change/gain scores for communication behaviors between the experimental group and the control group; Face-to-face communication is associated with the students’ social media networking habits (i.e. time spent on social media networking). There will ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has been the ...

I-Search 1: Does the influence of technology make education more effective?

This topic could be discussed in a class that discusses the success or failure of technology in making education effective. Education is traditionally dependent on the teacher-student relationship. A student learns as much as or as little as the teacher is able to teach. Can technology help remove this dependency and therefore be more effective in educating people?

What I Knew

I have heard about smart classes in school and increasingly at universities too, technology is replacing chalk and blackboards. We are more likely to attend lectures that have a slideshow presentation than a professor writing or illustrating a concept on the ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt so as to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has ...

User-generated content or Web 2.0 websites provide platforms for blogging, photo sharing, video sharing, and information sharing (Gangadharbatla, 2008). According to Nielsen/NetRatings, Web 2.0 websites make up five of the top ten fastest growing Web brands (Gangadharbatla), with social networking websites showing remarkable growth, especially among young adults and teens. Social networking sites provide various services such as e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, blogs, and video and photo sharing while others also offer matchmaking and dating capabilities.

As well, users have various reasons for using these sites. While some may do so to keep in touch with friends ...