Saturday 7 October 2017

Research Seminar: Dr Mark Coulson (Middlesex University)

*** Everyone Welcome! No need to book in advance ***

Date: Thursday 19th October
Time: 12:00-13:00
Room: College Building C136


Dr Mark Coulson (Middlesex University) 
‘What happens online doesn't stay online: Love and death in virtual worlds"
 
Abstract:



The increasing amount of time that people spend online necessitates a greater understanding of how online and offline life intersect.  In this talk I will discuss the results of a series of surveys which take phenomena that have been extensively studied offline (falling in love, generating emotional attachments, group membership, being faced with the prospect of our own mortality) and examine how these operate online. I conclude by arguing that discriminating between online and offline selves in all but the crudest terms, that of corporeal presence, is of little or no use.


Biography (in Mark's own words!):


Mark Coulson is Associate Professor of Psychology and constantly fails to limit the scope of his research interests, but enjoys the ride nonetheless.



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