New Facebook group & YouTube Video
June 23, 2008
In spirit of the Facebook fanpage I put up for the last post, I was inspired to set up a group on Facebook. Hopefully this link will get you there, you need to sign up for Facebook in order to take part in the group proceedings.
YouTube Video
Below is a video of Andrew Power, Head of School of Creative Technologies in IADT giving an interview on TTV about the MSc.
Currently that’s all for today, look out for an update soon. Don’t forget to join the group – – and contribute! I think a good research proposal would be on why people sign up to groups and then go completely inactive for months. Lurkers are one thing – thats fine, I think a lot of people can understand that, but people who sign-up to everything and then never return… serial sign-uppers.
Research proposal title: The inspirations and motivations of serial sign-uppers. (copyrighted) *
* may not be actual research proposal.
Msc Cyberpsychology
June 12, 2008
The MSc in Cyberpsychology is an innovative psychology programme. It aims to provide graduates with an in-depth understanding of how humans interact with technology and in an online environment.
IADT provides this MSc which has had a very successful first year – currently 16 students are taking the course part time over two years, and more applications have been accepted for the 2008 entry.
Modules studied in first year: Human Computer Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Psychology of the Internet, Internet Research Methods, Consumer Cyberpsychology.
Second year will provide further innovative subjects such as Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Environments, as well as Applied Cyberpsychology and a major research project.
The course provides ways that a student can apply psychological theories to what is currently happening on the internet between individuals in online environments, how technology is affecting the way we think, and how technology is changing how we live.
This unique MSc is the first of it’s kind, and therefore IADT is currently at the forefront of the field. Interested applicants should contact Grainne Kirwan at IADT.