A curated collection of essential readings in digital psychology, cyberpsychology, and human-technology interaction. This bibliography includes foundational textbooks, seminal research articles, influential popular works, and key academic journals that inform the content published on this blog.
Foundational Textbooks & Handbooks
Aiken, M. (2016). The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online. John Murray.
Attrill, A. (Ed.). (2015). Cyberpsychology. Oxford University Press.
Attrill-Smith, A., Fullwood, C., Keep, M., & Kuss, D. J. (Eds.). (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology. Oxford University Press.
Barak, A. (Ed.). (2008). Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications. Cambridge University Press.
Connolly, I., Palmer, M., Barton, H., & Kirwan, G. (Eds.). (2016). An Introduction to Cyberpsychology. Routledge. (2nd ed., Kirwan, G., Connolly, I., Barton, H., & Palmer, M., 2024.)
Norman, K. L. (2017). Cyberpsychology: An Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Power, A., & Kirwan, G. (Eds.). (2014). Cyberpsychology and New Media: A Thematic Reader. Psychology Press.
Suler, J. (2016). Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric. Cambridge University Press.
Whitty, M. T., & Young, G. (2017). Cyberpsychology: The Study of Individuals, Society and Digital Technologies. Wiley-Blackwell.
Online Identity & Self-Presentation
Boyd, D. (2014). It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press.
Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor Books. [Foundational theory applied extensively in digital identity research.]
Hogan, B. (2010). The presentation of self in the age of social media: Distinguishing performances and exhibitions online. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 30(6), 377–386.
Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon & Schuster.
Turkle, S. (2005). The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (20th anniversary ed.). MIT Press.
Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 23(1), 3–43.
Social Media & Psychological Well-being
Haidt, J. (2024). The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Penguin Press.
Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Demiralp, E., Park, J., Lee, D. S., Lin, N., Shablack, H., Jonides, J., & Ybarra, O. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e69841.
Orben, A., & Przybylski, A. K. (2019). The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(2), 173–182.
Przybylski, A. K., Murayama, K., DeHaan, C. R., & Gladwell, V. (2013). Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(4), 1841–1848.
Twenge, J. M. (2017). iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. Atria Books.
Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J. (2011). Online communication among adolescents: An integrated model of its attraction, opportunities, and risks. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(2), 121–127.
Digital Addiction & Problematic Use
Griffiths, M. D. (2005). A “components” model of addiction within a biopsychosocial framework. Journal of Substance Use, 10(4), 191–197.
King, D. L., & Delfabbro, P. H. (2020). Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention. Academic Press.
Kuss, D. J., & Griffiths, M. D. (2017). Social networking sites and addiction: Ten lessons learned. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(3), 311.
Montag, C., & Reuter, M. (Eds.). (2017). Internet Addiction: Neuroscientific Approaches and Therapeutical Implications Including Smartphone Addiction (2nd ed.). Springer.
World Health Organization. (2019). International Classification of Diseases (11th revision). [Inclusion of Gaming Disorder as a diagnostic category.]
Young, K. S. (1998). Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction — and a Winning Strategy for Recovery. Wiley.
Attention, Cognition & The Digital Brain
Carr, N. (2010). The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. W. W. Norton.
Carr, N. (2015). The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us. W. W. Norton.
Loh, K. K., & Kanai, R. (2016). How has the Internet reshaped human cognition? The Neuroscientist, 22(5), 506–520.
Ophir, E., Nass, C., & Wagner, A. D. (2009). Cognitive control in media multitaskers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(37), 15583–15587.
Sparrow, B., Liu, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2011). Google effects on memory: Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science, 333(6043), 776–778.
Ward, A. F., Duke, K., Gneezy, A., & Bos, M. W. (2017). Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(2), 140–154.
Wu, T. (2016). The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. Knopf.
Online Relationships & Communication
Sprecher, S. (2014). Initial interactions online-text, online-audio, online-video, or face-to-face: Effects of modality on liking, closeness, and other interpersonal outcomes. Computers in Human Behavior, 31, 190–197.
Suler, J. (2004). The online disinhibition effect. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 7(3), 321–326.
Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books.
Turkle, S. (2015). Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. Penguin Press.
Whitty, M. T., & Carr, A. (2006). Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships. Palgrave Macmillan.
Privacy, Surveillance & Persuasive Design
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2015). Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science, 347(6221), 509–514.
Eyal, N. (2014). Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Portfolio/Penguin. [Read critically as a primary source on persuasive design mechanics.]
Harris, T. (2016). How technology is hijacking your mind — from a magician and Google design ethicist. Medium / Thrive Global. [Influential essay that catalyzed the humane technology movement.]
Nissenbaum, H. (2010). Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford University Press.
Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs.
Cyberbullying & Online Aggression
Hinduja, S., & Patchin, J. W. (2015). Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying (2nd ed.). Corwin Press.
Kowalski, R. M., Giumetti, G. W., Schroeder, A. N., & Lattanner, M. R. (2014). Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth. Psychological Bulletin, 140(4), 1073–1137.
Smith, P. K. (2019). The Psychology of School Bullying. Routledge.
Suler, J. (2004). The online disinhibition effect. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 7(3), 321–326.
E-therapy & Digital Mental Health
Andersson, G. (2018). Internet interventions: Past, present and future. Internet Interventions, 12, 181–188.
Barak, A., Hen, L., Boniel-Nissim, M., & Shapira, N. (2008). A comprehensive review and a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of internet-based psychotherapeutic interventions. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 26(2–4), 109–160.
Lattie, E. G., Adkins, E. C., Winquist, N., Stiles-Shields, C., Wafford, Q. E., & Graham, A. K. (2019). Digital mental health interventions for depression, anxiety, and enhancement of psychological well-being among college students: Systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(7), e12869.
Riva, G., Baños, R. M., Botella, C., Wiederhold, B. K., & Gaggioli, A. (2012). Positive technology: Using interactive technologies to promote positive functioning. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(2), 69–77.
Virtual Reality & Embodiment
Bailenson, J. (2018). Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do. W. W. Norton.
Bailenson, J. N. (2021). Nonverbal overload: A theoretical argument for the causes of Zoom fatigue. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2(1).
Slater, M., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2016). Enhancing our lives with immersive virtual reality. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3, 74.
Yee, N., & Bailenson, J. (2007). The Proteus Effect: The effect of transformed self-representation on behavior. Human Communication Research, 33(3), 271–290.
Artificial Intelligence & Human-AI Interaction
Danaher, J. (2020). Welcoming robots into the moral circle: A defence of robot rights. Ethics and Information Technology, 22(4), 291–305.
Floridi, L. (2014). The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality. Oxford University Press.
Nass, C., & Moon, Y. (2000). Machines and mindlessness: Social responses to computers. Journal of Social Issues, 56(1), 81–103.
Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996). The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. Cambridge University Press.
Turkle, S. (2021). The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir. Penguin Press. [Autobiographical reflection on the researcher’s trajectory studying human-technology relationships.]
Digital Well-being & Technology Ethics
Hari, J. (2022). Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again. Crown.
Newport, C. (2019). Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Portfolio/Penguin.
Odell, J. (2019). How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House.
Price, C. (2018). How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. Ten Speed Press.
Williams, J. (2018). Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. Cambridge University Press.
Disinformation, Cognitive Warfare & Media Manipulation
Bradshaw, S., & Howard, P. N. (2019). The global disinformation order: 2019 global inventory of organised social media manipulation. Working Paper 2019.3. Oxford Internet Institute.
Pomerantsev, P. (2019). This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. PublicAffairs.
Singer, P. W., & Brooking, E. T. (2018). LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Wardle, C., & Derakhshan, H. (2017). Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policymaking. Council of Europe.
Children, Adolescents & Technology
Gardner, H., & Davis, K. (2013). The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World. Yale University Press.
Livingstone, S., & Helsper, E. J. (2008). Parental mediation of children’s internet use. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52(4), 581–599.
Radesky, J. S., Schumacher, J., & Zuckerman, B. (2015). Mobile and interactive media use by young children: The good, the bad, and the unknown. Pediatrics, 135(1), 1–3.
Steiner-Adair, C. (2013). The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age. Harper Business.
Key Academic Journals
The following peer-reviewed journals regularly publish research relevant to digital psychology and cyberpsychology:
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking — Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The flagship peer-reviewed journal in the field, covering the social, behavioral, and psychological impact of social networking and virtual reality. liebertpub.com/cyber
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace — Masaryk University. A diamond open-access journal focused on social science research about cyberspace. cyberpsychology.eu
Computers in Human Behavior — Elsevier. Examines the use of computers from a psychological perspective, including online behavior and human-computer interaction. sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-in-human-behavior
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) — JMIR Publications. The pioneer open-access eHealth journal, covering digital health, telemedicine, and technology-mediated interventions. jmir.org
Technology, Mind, and Behavior — American Psychological Association. APA’s journal focused on the intersection of technology and psychological science. tmb.apaopen.org
Media Psychology — Taylor & Francis. Publishes research on the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of media, including digital and interactive media.
New Media & Society — SAGE. An interdisciplinary journal examining the social dimensions of media and communication technologies.
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction — Taylor & Francis. Covers the design, evaluation, and use of interactive computing systems for human activities.
Psychology of Popular Media — American Psychological Association. Focuses on the psychology of engagement with popular media, including social media, gaming, and streaming content.
Online Resources & Organizations
APA Division 46: Society for Media Psychology & Technology — Professional division of the American Psychological Association dedicated to media psychology research and practice. apadivisions.org/division-46
BPS Cyberpsychology Section — Section of the British Psychological Society that promotes ethical research in human interactions with technology. bps.org.uk/member-networks/cyberpsychology-section
Center for Humane Technology — Non-profit organization founded by former tech insiders working to align technology with humanity’s best interests. humanetech.com
Internet Observatory — Stanford University — Research program studying abuse in current information technologies. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io
Oxford Internet Institute (OII) — Multidisciplinary department at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study of the societal implications of the Internet. oii.ox.ac.uk
Cyberpsychology Research Group — IADT Dún Laoghaire — Ireland-based research group pioneering cyberpsychology education and research, home of the first M.Sc. in Cyberpsychology.
This bibliography is a living document. References are added as new research and publications become available. Last updated: 2026.
Suggested citation: NetPsychology.org (2026). Bibliography. Retrieved from https://netpsychology.org/bibliography/