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The Unconscious of Social Media

In 2014 I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self. Since then I have been travelling...

The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: an update

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

It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to have a nice long conversation about my book The Psychodynamics of Social...

The Psychology of Trump’s Tweets

Another tweet, another firestorm. Clearly it’s not normal, and even more clearly, this behaviour is not suited to the office of...

When Status Anxiety is No Longer Just in Your Head: a review of Black Mirror’s Nosedive

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

We all know that social media has a pull on the ego, but how does this pull actually work and what...