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This course includes:

  • 1 hour on-demand video
  • 19 articles
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Assignments
Teaching & Academics Social Science Psychology

Discovering the Psychology of Social Media

Learn How and Why You Do the Things You Do Online
Rating: 3.5 out of 53.5 (5 ratings)
56 students
Created by Ciarán Mc Mahon
Last updated 11/2019
English
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Understand The Six Most Important Psychological Concepts For Understanding Social Media
  • How to Apply These Concepts To Your Own Life On Social Media
  • Start Taking Back Control Of Your Psychology From Social Media!

Requirements

  • no skills required
  • expected that you are familiar with social media
  • must have an interest in human psychology

Description

Hi, my name is Dr Ciarán Mc Mahon and I am the author of The Psychology of Social Media.

In this course you're going to learn the Six Most Important Psychological Concepts for Understanding Social Media. These are:

  • social capital

  • context collapse

  • online disinhibition

  • hyperpersonal communication

  • telepresence

  • threat of invisibility

What you will learn here will help you understand how your friends and family behave online. Having taken this course, not only will you better understand your relationships with them, and social media phenomena generally. But more importantly, you will also better understand your own relationship to social media - and your self.

Who this course is for:

  • anyone who’s ever been online
  • students of psychology, at any level
  • people who work with social media like journalists, marketers, influencers
  • parents, teachers and educators

Course content

8 sections • 38 lectures • 1h 15m total length

  • Preview02:45
  • Preview04:59
  • Preview02:18
  • Preview00:41
  • Preview02:21
  • Class project
    6 questions

  • Preview01:44
  • Definition: what is social capital?
    00:46
  • Examples: how does social capital manifest on social media?
    01:32
  • Research: what can science tell us about social capital?
    01:14
  • Practice: how can we apply social capital to our own lives?
    02:23
  • Social capital quiz
    2 questions

  • Preview01:40
  • Definition: what is context collapse?
    00:49
  • Examples: how does context collapse occur on social media?
    01:13
  • Research: what has science found about context collapse?
    01:19
  • Practice: how can we apply context collapse to our own lives?
    03:27
  • Context collapse quiz
    2 questions

  • Preview01:58
  • Definition: what is online disinhibition?
    01:31
  • Examples: how does online disinhibition occur on social media?
    01:39
  • Research: what has science found about online disinhibition?
    01:27
  • Practice: how can we apply online disinhibition to our own lives?
    02:27
  • Online disinhibition quiz
    2 questions

  • Preview02:01
  • Definition: what is hyperpersonal communication?
    01:04
  • Examples: how does hyperpersonal communication on social media?
    00:57
  • Research: what has science found about hyperpersonal communication?
    01:12
  • Practice: how can we apply hyperpersonal communication to our own lives?
    01:30
  • Hyperpersonal communication quiz
    2 questions

  • Preview02:02
  • Definition: what is telepresence?
    00:43
  • Examples: how does telepresence occur on social media?
    00:39
  • Research: what has science found about telepresence?
    01:21
  • Practice: how can we apply telepresence to our own lives?
    02:29
  • Telepresence quiz
    2 questions

  • Preview02:01
  • Definition: what is the threat of invisibility?
    00:49
  • Examples: how does the threat of invisibility occur on social media?
    00:50
  • Research: what has science found about the threat of invisibility?
    01:23
  • Practice: how can we apply the threat of invisibility to our own lives?
    02:00
  • Threat of invisibility quiz
    2 questions

  • Summary: what are the six key concepts again?
    03:39
  • Self-care: what can I do going forward?
    04:04
  • Bonus lecture
    04:50

Instructor

Ciarán Mc Mahon
Psychologist & Technologist
Ciarán Mc Mahon
  • 3.5 Instructor Rating
  • 5 Reviews
  • 56 Students
  • 1 Course

Hi, my name is Dr Ciarán Mc Mahon and I am the author of The Psychology of Social Media. I’ve been studying psychology for twenty years and I’m still fascinated by the interaction of the human mind with the information technologies we now use on a daily basis. I'm eager to share with Udemy members everything I've learned about how and why we act the way we do online.

You can contact this course on socmedpsy@gmail.com

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