Communication in a Virtual World - Research Proposal Example

People are doing everything on internet like chatting, planning, sharing ideas, poking, having sex, falling in love, and proposing to their virtual lovers. They are falling prey to the plastic profiles created on social networking sites and are becoming victims of sex predators, addictions, compulsive behaviors, and loss of social and emotional intelligence. Communicating in the virtual world is making us lose our identity as a human beings and hence is creating a danger of an increase in mental health problems like social phobia, fear, worry, and emotional maladjustment.

The research till now has provided me the data and the perspective of psychologists and thinkers over the dangers of Virtual Communication. I am using books like “Community: From Neighborhood to Network,” by Barry Wellman, ‘Media Effects’ by Jennings Bryant and Mary Beth Oliver, and ‘Online communication’  By Andrew F. Wood and Matthew J. Smith. However, I will not limit myself to these materials. I may refer to other journal articles and books so that I can reach the depth of this topic.