Teaching
Social Psychology of Computing
This course explores online behavior in terms of processes and principles derived from research in social psychology and communication. Topics include impression formation and management, deception and trust, online relationships, group dynamics, Internet addiction, social support, gender issues, online communities, social networks, video games, and others.
The overall goal for the course is to connect current thinking in psychology with human behavior on the Internet. There are multiple objectives intended for a wide variety of student background and goals including:
- Learning theories and models of human behavior (mostly online behavior but some of them will apply to offline settings as well)
- Examining a wide range of social phenomena on the Internet from psychological and communication perspectives
- Evaluating theories critically
- Forming an awareness of research methods that are used to study social behavior on the Internet
I also taught a course on Communication Research Methods (Comm 282) but this class is no longer in existence in the previous form.
For more information on either of these courses, including the syllabi, contact me Communication Department at Cornell University.