Online Harassment – it’s not just media hype

• 24th October 2014
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might feel that by going online you’ll be subjecting yourself to all sorts of danger....

Sadism on the Internet, what does it say about us?

• 9th October 2014
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

For a long time there has been an increasing sense that Internet trolling has been growing out of control. Though the...

The Strongest Online Persuader You’ll Ever Encounter: Yourself

• 11th May 2014
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

It’s time we were honest with ourselves about online persuasion, don’t you think? As every day passes, the online environment becomes more...

The Psychodynamics of Social Networking [Video]

• 2nd April 2014
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

My aim in writing the book The Psychodynamics of Social Networking was to take the incredible ideas and theories produced by...

The Psyche of Social Networking: Id, Ego, and Superego

• 23rd March 2014
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

Today, it may seem a little bit reductive, but Freud’s “tripartite psyche” still gives us a model of the psyche that...

The Digital Economy of Recognition: on the extensions of the self into the global Internet

• 18th February 2014
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

Presentation given at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies 20th Anniversary Conference, University of Essex. As a former student and member of...