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The Unconscious of Social Media
- 20th May 2019
- Aaron Balick
- ArchivePsychology of Social MediaTechnology
In 2014 I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self. Since then I have been travelling...

Being Human: The Psychology of Your Online Self
- 3rd July 2018
- Aaron Balick
- ArchivePsychology of Social Media
In case you missed it, you can now watch the video of my talk “The Psychology of your Online Self” which...

The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: an update
- 8th December 2017
- Aaron Balick
- ArchivePsychology of Social Media
When I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self in 2014 I understood well that technology and social...

The Psychology of Social Media Podcast on The Mental Breakdown
- 10th September 2017
- Aaron Balick
- ArchivePsychology of Social MediaTechnology
It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to have a nice long conversation about my book The Psychodynamics of Social...

When Status Anxiety is No Longer Just in Your Head: a review of Black Mirror’s Nosedive
- 25th October 2016
- Aaron Balick
- ArchiveFilm & TV Criticism
We would like to believe, just like all those flowered memes flying across Twitter and Instagram, that it doesn’t matter what...

Leaning Out: How the “Will to Share” is Changing Us
- 21st July 2016
- Aaron Balick
- ArchivePsychology of Social Media
We all know that social media has a pull on the ego, but how does this pull actually work and what...