Cyberpsychology Just a Testing Ground

This article has been divided into five sections. The first analyzes the emergence of cyberspace as a counter culture emphasizing distinctive backgrounds such as fictional universe, built-up intelligentsia, networked scenarios, and economic survival kit. The second analyzes the emergence of cyberspace within the contexts of military and political interests in the United States and the European Union. The third analyzes the transition from the Gutenberg to the Cyberia culture by remarking on 12 opposing pairs. The fourth analyzes the concept of cyberpsychology by paying attention to six different notions in the background: instrumental, dimensional, process-based, pragmatic, biased towards psychopathology, and knowledgeable. The fifth introduces an operational framework of cyberpsychology as continuing education, as doing research, and as knowledge-based expertise once psychologists become functionally literate in new information and communication technologies (NICT).