Nicola Fox Hamilton was the most recent visitor on For Tech’s Sake, diving into the great, the dangerous and the ugly components of being so technologically linked.
The world of know-how has gone via some extraordinarily quick revolutions. The place we as soon as talked to one another on the cellphone, instantly the daybreak of the web meant that we might hook up with anybody, wherever on the planet.
Then got here chatrooms, boards and social media websites and instantly there have been on-line communities all around the web. Then the web and the cellphone got here collectively to place all these communities proper into our palms all day lengthy.
All of this transformation unsurprisingly led to large adjustments in human behaviour, each on-line and offline. That is the place the research of cyberpsychology is available in.
“Cyberpsychology is the place we work together with know-how,” stated Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, a lecturer in cyberpsychology on the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Artwork, Design and Expertise. She was talking on the most recent episode of For Tech’s Sake.
“How we interact within the on-line world is unquestionably interacting with how we interact offline,” she stated. “We used to speak in regards to the ‘actual world’ and the ‘on-line world’, and that’s not likely an correct phenomenon anymore, as a result of every part’s so built-in into what we do on a day-to-day foundation.”
On this episode, Fox Hamilton discusses the great, the dangerous and the ugly components of being so technologically linked.
Whereas there are massive inquiries to be requested round how fixed interplay with the net world might form our offline world – and never all the time for the higher – Fox Hamilton additionally spoke about her disdain for know-how getting used as a scapegoat for larger societal points.
“There’s a lot reporting round cellphone habit, display screen habit, social media habit, recreation habit. Dependancy will get thrown round so, a lot and there’s no scientific habit to any of these issues. It isn’t a scientific phenomenon with specific symptomology and interventions and so forth,” she stated.
“I’m consistently making an attempt to fight it by saying, we sort of use it colloquially, like, ‘I’m hooked on chocolate’, but it surely’s not an habit, you realize? As a result of in case your child was hooked on heroin, you wouldn’t say, ‘Nicely, how a lot heroin a day is a suitable quantity of heroin for them to have?’”
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