Table of Contents

1. Communication technology and psychological well-being: Yin, Yang, and the golden mean of media effects George Rodman and Katherine G. Fry; 2. Internet and well-being Yair Amichai-Hamburger and Azy Barak; 3. Information, innovation, and society Steven L. Goldman; 4. Work-related technological change and psychological well-being Michael P. O'Driscoll, Caroline Biron, and Cary L. Cooper; 5. From ergonomics to hedonomics: trends in human factors and technology Tal Oron-Gilad and Peter A. Hancock; 6. 'Good teleworking': under what conditions does teleworking enhance employees' well-being? Ellen Ernst Kossek, Brenda A. Lautsch, and Susan C. Eaton; 7. Commuting and well-being Raymond W. Novaco and Oscar I. Gonzalez; 8. Technology and medicine Jeffrey W. Jutai, Sherry Coulson, and Elizabeth Russell-Minda; 9. Mothers of invention? The myth-breaking history and planetary promise of women's key roles in subsistence technology Rae Lesser Blumberg; 10. Technology and well-being: designing the future Yair Amichai-Hamburger.

Promotional Information

This book considers the impact of technology on our lives and ways to ensure technology enhances, rather than damages, our psychological well-being.

About the Author

Dr Amichai-Hamburger is the director of the Research Center for Internet Psychology (CIP), based at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He has taught courses on psychology and the internet, management and leadership, and creativity in organizations at Israel's leading universities and served as a senior advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Education. A prolific author, he has received awards from the American Library Association and the Academy of Management for his academic articles. His research interests include Internet use and well-being, virtual teams and inter-group contact on the Internet.

Reviews

Review of the hardback: 'Giving voice to different perspectives and practical concerns, this inspired book presents an original, wide-ranging read, spanning from remote pasts to close futures. An overview of challenges and promises of technologies is offered along with a call for a humanistic agenda culminating in shared critical capability, precious and powerful as a 'lighthouse in the darkness'.' Alberta Contarello, University of Padua, Italy

Review of the hardback: 'There have been many substantial books looking at the wide impact of new technologies on our political, economic and social lives. Technology and Psychological Well-being is one of the first to step back and look at the deeper, long-range significance of the communication technology that is reshaping our lives. With an extraordinary set of contributors, this book breaks new ground and makes an enormous contribution to understanding the ways in which our well-being, happiness and sense of security are shifting from all the technology in our lives. Only now, after a generation has experienced all this change, can such large and important issues begin to be properly understood.' Jeffrey Cole, Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School

Review of the hardback: 'Talk of information overload, Internet addiction, and work-life imbalance conveys a common fear of our well-being getting lost in the pursuit of technological gadgets and lifestyles. This book throws a critical, academic light on the countervailing role that new information and communication technologies can play in shaping the quality - social and psychological - of our everyday life and work. An excellent contribution to our understanding of technology and society.' William H. Dutton, University of Oxford