Psychologist, photographer, writer, cyberpsychology, east/west psychology. Author of Psychology of the Digital Age & Perception and Imaging.
Rider University
Joined April 2012
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After completing my cyberpsychology course, what had the biggest impact on the students? An exercise in which I asked them to go without ANY screens for just one hour (at a time of their choice)... Easy for some, incredibly difficult for others.
I really enjoyed the opportunity to talk about "the decisive moment" at #ICPhotog in New York. Great comments and questions from the audience!
When posing a question to an expert, assume they have addressed or at least considered that issue before. If they haven't, assume your question is either very smart, or very stupid.
Is there absolutely no shame, decency, or a sense of responsibility among game developers? nitter.cf/DrKimberlyYoung/status…
With #Internet #Gaming Disorder being recognized, how many of you feel outraged in light of recent school shootings to see this?? foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/27/…
Students in my undergrad cyberpsychology course all agree: they would NOT like to have the implanted "grain" depicted in the #blackmirror series episode "The Entire History of You." Why not?... Self-reflection would become an unproductive compulsion. goo.gl/MvTZKA
Yes, students love them! The episodes stimulate discussion about a wide range of cyberpsychology issues, although the downside is that their messages are almost exclusively dystopic. nitter.cf/MiltonBroome/status/99…
Love #BlackMirror . Such a good idea to use in classes to promote discussion. Will suggest we use this too @DerbyUniPsych on our #Cyberpsychology module.
What do undergraduate students like best about my cyberpsychology course: watching and discussing #BlackMirror episodes (our discussion boards are also their favorite part of the course because they otherwise rarely talk to each other about how technology affects them)
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3 years ago I wrote about this in my book #TheCyberEffect "I believe that the architecture of the Internet is a fundamental problem"(306-310) excerpt below. Google, Facebook & Williams @ev of Twitter go public with regrets"the Internet is broken"nyti.ms/2I5E8lz @JohnSuler
How to un-impress people even with very good photographs: show them on a phone! #mundanetinyscreens
If we don't get smarter about using the internet, the internet will surely get smarter about using us.
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Fascinating questions came up in the discussion with my cyberpsychology students about the "Be Right Back" Black Mirror episode. Could A.I. ever truly replicate a person & make them immortal? Is it unnatural & unhealthy to bypass the grieving process? Do we or A.I. have a soul?
This week I gave my undergrad cyberpsychology students an assignment in which they had to analyze the veracity of two "news" posts that appeared in Facebook during the presidential election. I was happy (relieved) to see that many of them did a pretty good job of it.
Quite a few of my undergraduate cyberpsychology students don't just do the typical social media self-branding thing. As in the good old days of the internet, they belong to online discussion and/or support groups, some of which are NOT in Facebook. Hooray for them!
Apparently such a privilege does not exist, for a Facebook account can only be "deactivated" and not "deleted." nitter.cf/sheeraf/status/9754431…
How interesting that into the ambiguity of what advanced A.I. might do we often project our fears about being destroyed. Or maybe it's a wish. nitter.cf/CyberMartina/status/97…
Tech Geniuses Fret That A.I. Is Gonna Kill Us All—Soonish vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/…
