Based on two decades of participant-observation field research in diverse online environments, this engaging book offers insights for improving lifestyles and enhancing wellbeing in the digital age. John R. Suler, a founder of the field of cyberpsychology, explains its fundamental principles across a wide variety of topics, including online identity management, disinhibition, communication via text and photographs, intimacy and misunderstandings in online relationships, conflicting attitudes toward social media, addiction, deviant behavior, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and media overload. He provides a new framework, the 'Eight Dimensions of Cyberpsychology Architecture', which researchers, students, and general readers interested in cyberpsychology can apply as a valuable tool for creating and understanding different digital realms. Psychology of the Digital Age focuses on the individual, shedding new light on our conscious as well as subconscious reactions to online experiences and our intrinsic human need to self-actualize.

John Suler Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, is internationally recognized as a founder of the field of cyberpsychology. His groundbreaking work "The Psychology of Cyberspace", one of the first and most widely cited online hypertext books, led to his seminal overview of the new discipline: "Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric" (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

An expert in emerging fields of psychology, he has also published widely on the integration of eastern philosophy and psychoanalysis. His collected works on that subject can be found in the book "Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought" (State University of New York Press), a tour de force showcasing Suler's talent for dazzling integrative thinking combined with an experience-near writing style.

His novel MADMAN follows from this work, combining the imagination of Vonnegut, the coming-of-age storytelling of JD Salinger, and the penchant for sidebar essays reminiscent of Robert Pirsig. It won the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel.

Suler's popular websites include Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors and his open-access guide Teaching Clinical Psychology. Most recently, his lifelong passion for photography and the role of images in identity expression has led him to pioneer another field, Photographic Psychology - the study of how we create, share, and react to images. For more information visit:

johnsuler.com

John Suler's work has been translated into a dozen languages and reported widely by national and international media, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. The author currently lives with his wife and a cat named Frida in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, while conducting triangle travel to the Appalachian mountains near Asheville and the Southern California coast.