Virtually You - The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality (Paperback)

While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our "e-personality" and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we're becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You draws from Aboujaoude's personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world's transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2012
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Elias Aboujaoude
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	349
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-34054-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-34054-6
Barcode:	9780393340549

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