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Rage Behind the Screen
The Psychology of Online Hate in the Age of Social MediaBy Farah Zidan
Length1h 41m
About this audiobook
Every day, millions of people open their phones and enter a war zone they never signed up for. A careless comment. A coordinated pile-on. A career destroyed in 48 hours by strangers who will forget the name by morning.
Rage Behind the Screen is not another book about how to handle haters. It is a deep, unflinching investigation into why they exist — and what their rage reveals about the world we have collectively built.
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and sociology, this book makes one central argument: digital rage is most often a mask worn over unhealed wounds. We punish others in public to avoid confronting the darkest parts of ourselves. The attacker is almost never really attacking you — they are attacking the pain they cannot name, the envy they cannot admit, the shame they have never processed.
Inside, you will discover:
Why social media platforms are engineered to amplify outrage — and profit from it
The neuroscience of why hurting someone online does not feel like hurting them
How projection, shame, envy, and loneliness fuel digital cruelty
Why influencers and content creators become targets for collective psychological wounds
What chronic online aggression does to both the victim and the aggressor
How to build genuine resilience — without going numb
This book is for creators, influencers, and anyone who has chosen visibility in a world that simultaneously rewards and punishes it. It is also for anyone who has, in a dark moment, been the one doing the hurting — and has never quite understood why.
For those who hurt, and those who were hurt by them — often the same person.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Self-Help, Business and Economics
Length1 hr 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction: Why Are We So Ready to Attack?
2PART ONE The Birth of Digital Rage
3Chapter 1: How the Internet Changed What It Means to Be Human
4Chapter 2: The Algorithm of Anger — How Outrage Gets Engineered
5Chapter 3: The Joy of the Attack — Collective Aggression Online
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6PART TWO The Psychology of the Attacker
7Chapter 4: Projection — Seeing Our Shadows in Others
8Chapter 5: Shame, Envy, and the Invisible Wounds
9Chapter 6: Powerlessness, Tribalism, and the Need to Belong
10PART THREE Life Under the Gaze of the Crowd
11Chapter 7: The Influencer's Burden — Visibility as Vulnerability
12Chapter 8: The Psychological Toll — What Digital Hate Does to Human Beings
13Chapter 9: The Cycle of Violence — When Targets Become Attackers
14PART FOUR Survival in the Age of Rage
15Chapter 10: Building the Psychological Architecture of Resilience
16Chapter 11: The Practice of Boundaries — Protecting Your Presence Online
17Chapter 12: Rebuilding Humanity in Digital Spaces
18Conclusion: The Long Work Ahead
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