Employing the transactional analysis in the study of the cyberspace
Journal Title: International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Despite the passing years, researchers who deal with the influence of the cyberspace on human functioning still remain one step behind the development of technology and the opportunities that it opens to the user. Multidisciplinary research which could initiate complementing the above-mentioned deficits requires a theoretical framework that would allow for bringing together the terminology and methodology. At this point, the author proposes using the concept of the transactional analysis, which, due to its versatility, is able to provide researchers with tools needed for such studies and offers clear language to describe the results. The article describes opportunities and benefits that the application of the concept may bring to researchers. In this regard, the issues connected with studying relationships between a person and information technology devices appear to be particularly interesting. Such areas of the transactional analysis as structural analysis and transactions analysis may prove to be particularly useful. Life script analysis and game analysis constitute other interesting domains.At the moment, the considerations contained in the article are primarily proposals and theoretical issues. However, the activities of the Research Group of the Educational Transactional Analysis that has been set up at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa involve taking the first steps aiming at exploring at least some of these issues. The benefits connected with the application of the concepts and tools of the transactional analysis are evident and cannot be underestimated. Perhaps it will be possible to break the deadlock that can be observed in the research of the cyberspace.
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Zbigniew Łęski
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