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The Cyber Effect, September 2016
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THE CYBER EFFECT
By: Mary Aiken

A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online

Spiegel and Grau
September 2016
On Sale: August 23, 2016
400 pages
ISBN: 0812997859
EAN: 9780812997859
Kindle: B01A4AXM8M
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave

Mary Aiken is the world’s leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology—a discipline that combines psychology, criminology, and technology to investigate the intersection where technology and human behavior meet. In this, her first book, Aiken has created a starting point for all future conversations about how the Internet is shaping development and behavior, societal norms and values, children, safety, security, and our perception of the world. Cyberspace is an environment full of surveillance, but who is looking out for us? The Cyber Effect offers a fascinating and chilling look at a future we can still do something about.

Drawing on her own research and extensive experience with law enforcement, Mary Aiken covers a wide range of subjects from the impact of screens on the developing child to the explosion of teen sexting, and the acceleration of compulsive and addictive behaviors online (gaming, shopping, pornography). She examines the escalation of cyberchondria (anxiety produced by self-diagnosing online), cyberstalking, and organized cybercrime in the Deep Web. Aiken provides surprising statistics and incredible-but-true case studies of hidden trends that are shaping our culture and raising troubling questions about where the digital revolution is taking us.

The Cyber Effect will upend your assumptions about your online life and forever change the way you think about the technology you, your friends, and family use. Readers will gain a new understanding of the rapid change taking shape around us and come away with critical tools to become part of this very necessary conversation.

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CBS This Morning - August 22, 2016