| Description |
222 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Understanding Addiction: An Overview. The Birth of Internet Addiction Disorder -- From Addiction to Dependence: Changing Definitions of Human Behavior. A Brief History of Addiction as Mental Disorder. "Process Addiction": America as an Addicted Society -- Internet Addiction Disorder: Social Interaction as Pathology. Symbolic Interaction and the Deviance Process. Creating a New Pathology: Internet Addiction Disorder -- An Easy Mark: Targeting Online Interaction. A Brief History of Medicalization. Critiques of Mass Electronically-Mediated Communications -- On Being Human: Online Self and Community. Symbolic Communities. The Reality of Online Communities -- An Interactionist View of Internet Addiction Disorder: Concluding Remarks |
| Summary |
"The year 1998 witnessed the birth of a new disorder...Internet Addiction Disorder. As the number of linkage points, host computers, connected networks and individual users plugged into the Internet has continued to increase exponentially, some have begun to question the Net's impact on our psychological well-being. Among the issues under debate is the question of whether or not Internet use is addictive. Though many regular Internet participants scoff at such an idea, and create satirical Web sites, IRC chat rooms and Usenet newsgroups to make their point, a growing number of professionals in the field of psychology disagree. They argue that Internet participation is addictive, and that in many ways its symptoms, diagnosis and treatment parallel that of other addictions, such as compulsive gambling, shopping and even drug and alcohol abuse."--BOOK JACKET |
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"What are we to make of this new disorder? What, precisely, does addiction mean? Can individuals really become addicted to the Internet?"--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-216) and index |
| Subject |
Internet addiction.
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| LC no. |
99014712 |
| ISBN |
156072675X |
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