The cyber effect
Subtitle: a pioneering cyberpsychologist explains how human behavior changes online
By: Mary Aiken, PhD
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780812997859
Subjects: Social psychology; Human behavior; Interpersonal relations; Psychology; Psychological aspects; Internet users
Description: "From one of the world's leading experts in cyberpsychology--a discipline that combines psychology, forensics, and technology--comes a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behavior. In the first book of its kind, Mary Aiken applies her expertise in cyber-behavioral analysis to a range of subjects, including criminal activity on the Deep Web and Darknet; deviant behavior; Internet addictions; the impact of technology on the developing child; teenagers and the Web; cyber-romance and cyber-friendships; cyberchondria; the future of artificial intelligence; and the positive effects on our digital selves, such as online altruism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: When humans and technology collide; title: The normalization of a fetish; title: Designed to addict; title: Cyber babies; title: Frankenstein and the little girl; title: Teenagers, monkeys, and mirrors; title: Cyber romance; title: Cyberchondria and the worried well; title: What lies beneath: the Deep Web; title: The cyber frontier.