Cyberspace as a Dream World To see what others were saying about these topics, I used several search engines. Using the Netscape homepage search page as a homebase, I used Webcrawler , AltaVista , Infoseek , and Excite to search for webpages and newsgroups. The results were less than encouraging. Of the pages that turned up, these seemed to be the most relevant. Dr. John Suler of Rider University has a web site called The Psychology of Cyberspace in which there is a collection of articles on the psychology of cyberspace.
People often describe their computers as an extension of their minds or personalities.
In this article, Dr. Suler also goes into the aspects of avatars. A Resource Site for Analysis of Virtual Communities by Storm A. King. Mr. King had several interesting things on his page, including a list of essays that he wrote and a links page to Online journals that have to do with psychology. Through the use of computers and hypertext, we have given the traditional forms of media new life, giving it capabilities that it never had before. Thanks to hypertext, one can access pages and files that relate to the topic that you are reading about with a click of a mouse.