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Book SynopsisFreakonomics for our modern online lives from the world's leading cyberpsychologist and inspiration for CSI Cyber, Mary Aiken.
Trade ReviewIf you have children, stop what you are doing and pick up a copy of The Cyber Effect, a fascinating book that explores how human behaviour changes online * THE TIMES *
Really good... Our lives are changing and human behaviour is evolving because people act differently when they are interacting with technology, says the cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken.
She explains why studying our online identities is
fascinating - and frightening... * OBSERVER *
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BEST SCIENCE PICK OF THE WEEK * NATURE *
A Freakonomics for our online lives...With great clarity and insight, Aiken investigates the effect of technology on human behaviour * THE BOOKSELLER, Books to Watch *
From online dating to Pokémon GO,
our lives are merging with tech. It's the cyber-effect * LONDON EVENING STANDARD *
Aiken is popularly known as the inspiration for the TV crime drama
CSI: Cyber. In
The Cyber Effect,
she offers a fresh voice and a uniquely compelling perspective that draws from the murky, fascinating depths of her criminal case file - an expert on human behavior in the cyber-realm * WASHINGTON POST *
Aiken really hits her stride in three central chapters covering the impact of digital technology on children and young people
. Here she makes a powerful case for the view that our society has been criminally negligent in the way it puts children in the harm's way of digital technology * GUARDIAN *
It is of some comfort to me to know that I am not alone in my Cassandra-like warnings about the outlaw Internet.
"We cannot stand by passively and watch the cyber experiment play out," Aiken warns. "In human terms, to wait is to allow for the worst outcomes." I could not have said it better. * HUFFINGTON POST *
Having worked with law enforcement groups from Interpol and Europol as well as the U.S. government, Aiken knows firsthand how today's digital tools can be exploited by criminals lurking in the Internet's Dark Net * NEWSWEEK *
Obesity, aggression, developmental delays: what tablets and mobiles are doing to our children...Dr Aiken says
children are being 'catapulted' into cyberspace before they are psychologically capable of making sense of it * TELEGRAPH *
Aiken does a good job of pulling together the main charges against the internet . . .
this book is fascinating . . . the result is a book that is extremely useful and well researched -- 28.06.2016 * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
