Tools & resources for you.
We have put together a list of some incredible work done in the cyber-psychology space including books, research papers and other documents.
FORESIGHT RESEARCH
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Strategic foresight is a structured and systematic way of getting a glimpse into possible futures to anticipate, strategize and better prepare for change.
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Research is focused on the topics of well-being, environment and education within the context of technology.
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Well-being
Education
Well-being Risks In The Metaverse Era
Sumona Banerji's 2023 Thesis is preliminary research that uses various system frameworks to delve into the ways in which Virtual Worlds may impact the psychological well-being of its users and examines the underlying motivations driving potential problematic behaviour. This project hopes to change how online behavior of individuals and systems is understood and responded to in light of exponential technologies.
W42: Well-being Technology 2040
Technology and the Futures of Wellbeing seek to inform the Canadian Patient Safety Institute on how Canadians may experience well-being in the year 2040. This knowledge may be used to increase awareness among patients and explore further patient and user protection opportunities.
Scotiabank: Mitigating Unintended Technology Harms
How might we use financial literacy, ethically and inclusively, to minimize unintended consequences in the shifting FinTech landscape?
Trend Analysis Exploration
Loneliness, Healthcare and Dematerialization Trends
Practical Open Source Education Toolkit For Inclusive Classrooms
How might Canadian elementary schools create inclusive and equitable
environments for recent refugee and existing students?
Books
Dr. Mary Aiken, an expert in Cyberpsychology explains how technology is shaping our children, our behavior, and our values--and what we can do about it. iken provides surprising statistics and incredible-but-true case studies of hidden trends that are shaping our culture and raising troubling questions about where the digital revolution is taking us.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free.
Jeremy Bailenson draws upon two decades spent researching the psychological effects of VR to help readers understand its upsides and possible downsides. He offers expert guidelines for interacting with VR, and describes the profound ways this technology can be put to use to hone our performance, help us recover from trauma, improve our learning, and even enhance our empathic and imaginative capacities so that we treat others and ourselves better.
This engaging and accessible textbook offers a complete introduction to the subject. The authors outline key theories, provide critical assessments, identify areas in need of further research, and discuss ways to use digital technologies as a research tool. They also include a wealth of real life examples, activities and discussion questions for students at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Research
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace is a diamond open access, web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
Curated by Zach Rausch (New York University), Nathan Darmon (Columbia University) and Camille Carlton from the Center for Humane Technology with assistance from Jonathan Haidt (New York University).
Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live our lives.
The people, organizations, and ideas of the Responsible Tech ecosystem and actionable ways to get involved.