Cambridge author John Suler explores ‘trolls’ in his new book Psychology of the Digital Age.
Read MoreIf your mind hasn’t already been totally numbed by tech news, consider pointing it towards the newest phenomenon that everyone is talking about: Pokémon GO. I won’t bother taking the time to describe how it works, because by now the odds are that you already know. You probably already know that experts and non-experts alike […]
Read MoreChoosing a platform to use for integrating Internet tools into educational settings can be a difficult and complex task involving consideration and balancing of a number of competing factors. Is the goal of the anticipated educational activities transfer of specific knowledge/skills? Is it to increase problem solving capabilities in an information age? Is it to […]
Read MoreIs collaboration the right word or even the right concept when discussing the ways we imagine the Internet to change human thinking and problem solving? Collaboration through Internet tools has become a dominant meme over the last few decades. At the same time the concept of augmentation of the human intellect seems to have been […]
Read MoreAs researchers like Norman Holland, Adam Joinson, and myself noted twenty years ago, people tend to say and do things online that they would not typically say and do in the in-person world. In an article that I first published in The Psychology of Cyberspace, I described six ingredients of this “online disinhibition effect.” More […]
Read MoreWith online privacy facing grave threats, Scott J. Shackelford, the author of Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations, takes readers inside the complex world of cybersecurity law.
Read MorePaul Bernal, the author of Internet Privacy Rights, breaks down the brave new world of the right to privacy in an online age. Google and Facebook have put our Internet privacy concerns front and center—but is there a solution in sight?
Read MoreHere’s an interesting thing. Many professors despise the idea that technology drives history. “Technological determinism,” they say, is a cardinal intellectual mistake like belief in the tooth fairy. No right-thinking member of Club Academe would or should embrace it. In contrast, most regular folks intuitively believe that technology drives history.
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