The Digital Human

摘要

When a British newspaper picked up on the Twitter stream of Dr Aleks Krotoski, social psychologist and technology journalist, they described it as 'disjointed'. Krotoski began to receive concerned messages from followers asking if she was OK, and she realised that there was a danger of too much self-expression in her digital world. Who has control of who we are, when we go online? What are the psychological implications of the urge many now have to capture every image, experience and feeling for online eternity? More broadly, how has the internet changed our lives? And just as importantly, how has our essential being remained untouched by the dizzying technological advances?