ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Informal Learning, Interpersonal Relationship, Internet Addiction Disorder
14 Dec 2016
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Addiction – What makes teens obsessed with social media?
❖ Additio Epeiet
➢ To deal with obsession, some defriend Facebook – Article
➢ Teens addicted to mobile devices – News report
▪ How media shows this addiction
• How to deal with the issue – specialists
• Set good examples
• The problem of addiction is based to technology
o Technology is something we need to blame?
➢ The Addiction discourse
▪ Parents: blaming the technology Anxiety
• Parents worried about their kids
▪ Tees: lak of otol
• They say that they are not able to control it because they are
really addicted
▪ Entertainment
▪ Sociality
➢ Deep engagement with social media does not mean that teens are not social
➢ The seeigl additie ehaio of the tees eas diffeet thigs tha
their parents/teachers would think
❖ The additio aatie
➢ Modern idea (late 19th – early 20th century)
➢ Medical concerns
➢ Drug and alcohol abuse, then incorporated the excessive use of
communication technologies
➢ Usually represented in the media as a problem with youth culture
▪ Addiction a problem with the youth culture
➢ Pathologizig additio disode
▪ Pathologizing: something that need to be treated
• Disease
• Clinical treatment
Addictio discourse
Author’s arguet
New technology as devil
Deeply social but having little freedom in
their daily life
- Freedom means mobility
No agency of teens (unable to control
themselves)
Social media help them to connect
❖ Growing up with limited freedom
➢ A gap in perspective: different ideas about sociality
➢ Teens are having less freedom (mobility) than previous generation
➢ The major reason is fear due to neighborhood transformation
▪ Certain neighborhood that the parents think of it as problematic or
danger
▪ Makes the parents fear certain areas in the public space
➢ Access to public spaces largely limited
➢ Limited free time, highly structured
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Document Summary
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