As a cyberpsychologist, I care deeply about human-technology interactions, follow related headlines, and voraciously read whatever books, articles, or scholarly materials available in this important field. Along that vein, I'll be reading several of Sherry Turkle's books in the coming summer months. Turkle's resume in human-technology interaction...
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Why are YouTubers, like social media influencer Jeff Wittek, risking their lives for clicks? Like all things related to human motivation, the answer (much like an onion) has multiple layers. See my (abridged) response, as a cyberpsychology source, on the Mic article here. Expanded response Due to submission deadlines...
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With my Twitter Developer application now officially approved, I'm one step closer toward building a media-activity analysis tool using Twitter's API. I’ve named this forthcoming tool Vistorylizer; a moniker that meshes the term "visual storytelling" with a metrics-measurement "analyzer" label. Because that's what Vistorylizer sets out to...
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