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DR CATHERINE KNIBBS DEVELOPED THE CYBERTRAUMA THEORY (2016-2021)

Cybertrama & Safeguarding

Cybertrauma is any trauma that is a result of self or, other-directed interaction with, mediated through, or from any electronic internet/cyberspace ready device or machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithm, that results in impact now or future.
(Knibbs, 2016-2021)

THE THEORY
 

What is Cybertrauma?
 

Cybertrauma is the framework I developed to describe how online experiences land in the human body, brain, and nervous system and what we can do about it.

It bridges trauma theory, neuroscience, attachment, and digital culture into a model practitioners can actually use. Not about banning tech. About understanding what's really happening to humans in a digital world.

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Cybertrauma is any trauma that is a result of self or, other-directed interaction with, mediated through, or from any electronic internet/cyberspace ready device or machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithm, that results in impact now or future.
This event/interaction can be multi-modal, multi-platform and multi-interval, delayed or immediate, legal or not, singular or plural, and may include images, sound, and or text and may or may not be vitriolic in nature.
Events may include covert and overt typology and may be virtual and corporeal and/or at the same time. (Knibbs, 2016-2021)

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Following my recent post and coverage of AI-generated videos targeting school pupils, I've created a read to print letter for parents to take directly to their child's school, club or setting.

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