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- Herausgeber: European Investment Bank
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: Big ideas
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
Internet is a real place. Every time we switch on our computers, use a program or an application, or log in to a social media site, we enter a virtual space made up of worlds, domains, forums and rooms. But we behave differently when we interact with technology: technology amplifies and accelerates our deeds; it can help us find useful information, benefit from a wide range of services and stay in touch with our friends, but it can also create addictive-type behaviours and subliminally manipulate us online. Mary Aiken, a cyberpsychologist specialised in the impact of technology on human behaviour, warns us about cybersecurity: "We need a human-centred approach that is mindful of how humans actually use connected things and not how the tech sector presumes or expects them to". This is the fifth essay in the Big Ideas series created by the European Investment Bank.
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Life in Cyberspace
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The cyber effect
All internet users are not equal
A holistic overview
The precautionary principle
Biography
Notes
About the European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank is the world’s biggest multilateral lender. The only bank owned by and representing the interests of the EU countries, the EIB finances Europe’s economic growth. Over six decades the Bank has backed start-ups like Skype and massive schemes like the Øresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark. Headquartered in Luxembourg, the EIB Group includes the European Investment Fund, a specialist financer of small and medium-sized enterprises.
LIFE IN CYBERSPACE
Dr Mary Aiken
The findings, interpretations and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Investment Bank.
BIG IDEAS
Internet is a real place. Every time we switch on our computers, use a program or an application, or log in to a social media site, we enter a virtual space made up of worlds, domains, forums and rooms. But we behave differently when we interact with technology: technology amplifies and accelerates our deeds; it can help us find useful information, benefit from a wide range of services and stay in touch with our friends, but it can also create addictive-type behaviours and subliminally manipulate us online.
Mary Aiken, a cyberpsychologist specialised in the impact of technology on human behaviour, warns us about cybersecurity: “We need a humancentred approach that is mindful of how humans actually use connected things and not how the tech sector presumes or expects them to”.
This is the fifth essay in the Big Ideas series created by the European Investment Bank.
The EIB has invited international thought leaders to write about the most important issues of the day. These essays are a reminder that we need new thinking to protect the environment, promote equality and improve people’s lives around the globe.
LIFE IN CYBERSPACE
“Cyber” refers to anything involving computers or computer networks, such as the Internet. As a cyberpsychologist, I study human interaction with technology, digital media, artificial intelligence, and mobile and networked devices.
I also research how the Internet and digital activities, such as gaming and virtual reality, affect human behaviour. I focus on Internet psychology and figuring out how technology has the potential to impact or change human behaviour. The development of information technology has exploded over the past 30 years. We now spend a significant part of our life in a space – cyberspace – that did not exist previously. We all know about the incredible benefits of the “information superhighway” of cyberspace, the Internet: affordability, convenience, connectivity, creativity, altruism, and educational and cultural exchange, along with the growth of entrepreneurship and commercial opportunities. However, the substantial benefits associated with our colonisation of cyberspace have downsides. Cyberactivity can have real-world consequences; claims for the independence of cyberspace are based on a false dichotomy: the physical and virtual are not opposed; rather the virtual complicates the physical, and vice versa. [1]
