The Role of Cyberspace in Changing Human Behavior
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Cyberspace is a digital and interactive environment consisting of computer systems, networks, software, and users that enable communication and data transfer over the Internet. Cyberspace consists of several basic layers. These are:
1- The physical cyberspace layer: This layer includes all physical components, equipment, and devices, including computers, cables, and various software.
2- The logical cyberspace layer: This layer relies on what is called the logic unit or on the intangible components, such as algorithms and various programming languages that interact with the computer, and the set of symbols and codes contained in computer languages that execute commands.
3- The media layer: This is the third layer in cyberspace, encompassing all user-related information, personal data, website accounts, and other personal matters. Mary Aiken, in her book "Cyber Influence," emphasized how people's behaviors, feelings, and values change when they are live, and how criminals exploit these changes. If we go back to (lifestyle analysis), we notice that people do not use their time to read a book, play with children, or complete some of the house’s deficiencies. Rather, you return to your phone to browse websites that move you from one place to another and do not exist in the real world. Time is not considered for you, as there is a (time confusion), meaning that the individual does not feel the passage of time and adapts to another world, which is cyberspace. After the time factor was taken into account a thousand times, it has become cheap, fast, and priceless, as it takes the individual long hours, which may be for nothing useful. The individual may imagine that cyberspace is safer than real life, and that communicating on the air is less dangerous than communicating face to face, as we imagine that our identity is anonymous or we feel that we are invisible and some of the freedom and boldness on the air, as more of this freedom leads to a loss of control over society and thus to change
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