NEW MEDIA - NEW MIND
 
 
  How the development of information technology will change the mind and our behavioral patterns in a few years
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DANIELE LA BARBERA M.D. Professor of Psychotherapy


Istituto di Neuropsichiatria dell'Universita`, Via G.La Loggia 1, 90129 Palermo, ITALY, tel.: 00390916555168/64/67 - e-mail: [email protected]
THIS HOME PAGE WAS BORN ON July 10, 1999


I work as Associate Professor at Psychiatric Service of Palermo Medical School.
In June 1999 we held our Congress in Lampedusa about Psychology and Psychopathology of new media; proceedings of this Congress were pubblished in January 2000: "La Mente in Internet", Piccin Padova. In April 2000 we held our second Congress in Palermo :"New Media and psychological disorders". Papers are available by e-mail.

 
  Digital and virtual society, as well as science fiction has predicted, is quickly transforming our way of thinking and living; computer-mediated communication is the prime mover of this electronic revolution
  Following are some of my works about the psychological and sociological impact of information technology:


1) Technological eros and the reality as a play: issues on the relationship between real and virtual (1995).

2) Pandora's box of digital society: new media, new trouble?(1998).

3) Connecting net, capturing net: metaphors of Internet "experience"(1999).

4) Stress and changes: the transformations of way of life in the present age and their effects on human mind (1990).

5) The imaginary and the resonance of future: sceneris of mind on the transit in new millennium (1995).

6) Human development and quality of life in digital society:between mediatic violence and new humanism (1998).

7) Magic casket and the virtual travel round the world: identity and relations in the age of computer (1997).

8) Psychiatry on line: critical evaluation of some sites and services on the Web (1997).

9)From agor� to cyberspace:patterns of experience and relationship online (2000).
 
  My interests: - Media research (sociology, psychology and psychopathology of new media) - Cyberculture and psychology of cyberspace - Ecstasy and new drugs
 
  • Computers/Technology
  • Movies/TV
  • Philosophy
  • Science Fiction
  • Yoga and Eastern religions









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