Basic Psychological Feature in Cyberspace

Sabtu, 29 Juni 2019

Basic Psychological Feature in Cyberspace

Reduce Sensation

Combining seeing and hearing – is still limited. For the most part people communicate through typed language.

Texting

Text-based form communication.

Identitiy Flexibility

The lack of face-to-face cues has a curious impact on how people present their identity in cyberspace-express yourself through the visual costumes known as “avatars”.

Altered Perceptions

It mimics a state of consciousness that resembles dreams. These altered and dream-like states of consciousness in cyberspace may account for why it is so attractive for some people. It might help explain some forms of computer and cyberspace addiction.

Equalized Status

Everyone-regardless of status, wealth, race, gender, etc.- starts off on a level playing field. Some people call this the “net democracy”.

Transcended Space

"Synchronous communication" - communicating real time with each other via the internet. “Asynchronous communication" that does not require people to interact with each other in the moment -- both asynchronous and synchronous communication (with the exception of video conferencing and internet phoning), there is a stretching of time. During chat and IM you have from several seconds to a minute or more to reply to the other person - a significantly longer delay than in face-to-face meetings.

Social Multiplicity

The internet will get more powerful as tools for searching, filtering, and contacting specific people and groups become more effective. But why do we choose only some people to connect with - and not others? - A user will act on unconscious motivations - as well as conscious preferences and choices - in selecting friends, lovers, and enemies. This "transference" guides us towards specific types of people who address our underlying emotions and needs.

Recordability

Most online activities, including e-mail correspondence and chat sessions, can be recorded and saved to a computer file. Unlike real world interactions, the user in cyberspace can keep a permanent record of what was said, to whom, and when -- You can reexperience and reevaluate any portion of the relationship you wish, you can use quoted text as feedback to the partner, etc.

Media Disruption

There will be moments when software and hardware don't work properly, when noise intrudes into the communication, and connections break. The frustration and anger we experience in reaction to these failures says something about our relationship to our machines and the internet - something about our dependency on them, our need to control them. That lack of response also opens the door for us to project all sorts of worries and anxieties onto the machine that gives us no reply. These the black hole experiences of cyberspace.