internet addiction

Discusses digital addiction, looking at how digital addiction develops and how it can interfere with a person's daily life.

Explains how the Internet and digital media have impacted major aspects of modern culture, discussing how digital technologies have changed the ways people work, learn, and socialize.

Fourteen-year-old Daria does not see a problem with her excessive use of technology to keep in touch with friends from her old school, until her habit puts a life in danger.

"Identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. He shows how digital minimalists are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude. He then shares strategies for integrating these practices into your life, starting with a thirty-day 'digital declutter' process that has already helped thousands feel less overwhelmed and more in control"--Amazon.

". . . explores the effects that our constant connectivity is having on our brains, bodies, relationships, and socity at large"--OCLC.

Many people keep smartphones, tablets, and other handy computerized devices on hand to consult for information and research, keep up with friends and family, and take phone calls. But sometimes all this convenient access goes beyond a handy tool and into an unhealthy addiction. This resource defines the various issues that can arise and provides resources for those who have a problem or know someone who needs their help.

People are finding innumerable ways to entertain themselves online. Many of these options are enjoyable and even rewarding but concerns about violence, addiction, and isolation also exist.

Reliance on digital technology becomes a problem when a pleasurable, relatively harmless and even beneficial activity turns into an addictive behavior. The scope of this growing problem, the causes, the consequences, and efforts to address it are discussed.

A penetrating examination of the insidious effects of the Internet on our personalities?online and off. Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. This new self, which Aboujaoude dubs our "e-personality," manifests itself in every curt email we send, Facebook "friend" we make, and "buy now" button we click. Too potent to be confined online, however, e-personality traits seep offline, too, making us impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven even after we log off. Virtually You uses examples from Aboujaoude's personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world's transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You shows us how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.

After moving to a new school, fourteen-year-old Daria's need to stay connected to her old life via her cell phone and Facebook seems like addiction to her parents and new friends, but Daria doesn't see anything wrong until a serious problem arises.