Cyber & You: The impact of technology on our lives 9781789550078, 9781789550061

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The cyber landscape
1.1: On becoming Cyborgs, Avatars, Transhuman and Cyberselves
Digital culture and communities
Digitally reluctant and cautious late adopters
Digital communities as an enabler and as a regulator
Entropy, perception of ‘chaos’ and the illusion of the ‘cure’
Underestimating the need for rapport, physical embodiment and empathy
Digital Communities
1.2: Cyber-Mind, The Self as Code, CyberSects, The Selfie and the Other
Cyber-Robotic Selves, the Uncanny Valley, Daemons, Companion Robots
Digital Assistants: Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Assistant as industry competitors
1.3: The ethics of AI. Are humans in control?
Financial markets
Chatbots
Brain scanners
Gaming
AI Drones in the Military
Smart Systems in industry
Ethics when using smart systems and AI
Nano-robots and automation
Will automation, AI and robotics take away jobs?
Challenging financial exclusion
1.4: Identity, fashion and cultural identity
Visual cyber motifs and cyber design methods:
1.5: Cyber Media
Cyber memes
Cyber fashion
CyberGoth
Cyber motifs
Health and Beauty social media influencers
1.6: Cyber Co-creation
1.7: From Virtual Community to Meta verse
Size and intimacy of groups
Global survival and Tech for Good
Social online communities
Regulation of social media
UX: Understanding users and user experience
We are virtual communities, not just products and services
Ethical design of social media and immersive spaces
1.8: Cyber Art, communities online and virtual worlds
1.9: Virtual self: Avatar
Avatar as character, player or robot
Living in Virtual Worlds
Seepage from the virtual to the real
1.10: Who is protecting us?
1.11: Branding and value added support services
1.12: Reaching out to diverse communities
Part 2: Ethics for the Digital World
Digital Trust and Privacy
Power and control
2.1: Protecting our online identity
Fraud and Scams
Making your Internet enabled home products secure (IoT)
2.2: Cyber abuse by whom, why and where
2.3: Personal eSafety: Protecting our children and families
2.4: Cyber-Addictive tendencies and Cyber-Health
2.5: Re-defining relationships online
Part 3: Cyber Crime Within the Global Context
Living in a global world
3.1: Combating Cybercrime
Criminals’ motivation
Cyberattack and cybercrime: opportunity and type
3.2: International crime linked to cybercrime
Findings from Europol’s European Union Internet Referral Unit
Europe – EU – working together to combat cybercrime
3.3: Why does global cybercrime work?
Who are the targeted victims and who are the perpetrators?
Challenges with Cybercrime evidence
3.4: Strategy needs clarity, resilience and long-term planning
Is Democracy safe?
3.5: International corporate cyber threats
National, Local, Tech Giants and Superpowers
Technical and legal methods to maintain territorial borders
Tacking cybercrime across the globe
Programme of European and Global directives 2002 – 2020
Part 4: The Here and Now
4.1: Surveillance, geo locators, we are being watched
4.2: Cyber learning and education
4.3: Information warfare and online disinformation
Part 5: The Future
Cyberselves
Becoming Digital
Cyber Benefits
Cyber Risks and Balances
Cyber, You, Education and Ethics
Acknowledgments