565 Search Results for Addiction to the Internet
Internet Addiction Disorder
Internet Addiction
Internet Addiction Disorder is a disease that has emerged in recent years and is at the time still new in terms of identification of symptom and treatment options as well. This work will research and e Continue Reading...
How often do you lose sleep due to late-night log-ins?
15. How often do you feel preoccupied with the Internet when off-line, or fantasize about being online?
16. How often do you find yourself saying "just a few more minutes" when on-
line?
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Internet started way back 3 to 4 decades, but it really took the world by storm through the 90's and till now it has become one of the main assets of modern day computer user. More people get the information through Internet, especially those who use Continue Reading...
Paradoxical as it might seem the Internet, which is being touted as a broad socializing medium is silently causing social isolation among some of the users. In some countries like Korea and China, increasing number of adolescents are addicted to onl Continue Reading...
..social skills are built and educational choices are made that influence the entire adulthood" (90). Thus, the concern on the possible effects Internet addiction can have on the youth's development as an adult makes escalating Internet use and event Continue Reading...
Internet Privacy for High School Students
The unrestrained stream of information is conceived necessary for democracies and market-based economies. The capability of the Internet to make available the vast quantity of information to practically ever Continue Reading...
4. Solutions
From the above discussion we can deduce that Internet addiction is not just another popular from of 'hype' but is a serious condition that is need of solutions. As awareness of the disorder becomes more prevalent so do the number of p Continue Reading...
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In addition to this myriad of theories purporting answers to addictions, the following two approaches are also used.
Environmental Approaches to preventing substance abuse, particularly with includes education, but primaril Continue Reading...
At the bottom line, the issue at hand is with the sanctity and safety of the students and the responsibility of the university to preserve and develop that.
Moreover, many of these students are dallying into multi-dimensional virtual worlds that ar Continue Reading...
As is the case with so many other benign behaviors (and even behaviors that are generally useful and beneficial), the Internet became a source of compulsion and addictive behaviors for many of those who are already naturally inclined toward compuls Continue Reading...
Internet Addiction
It is thought that nearly five million people today are addicted to the Internet. With that many people experiencing addiction symptoms, it is important for the mental health community to develop methods of treatment. In an articl Continue Reading...
At the same time, irrespective of age, race, and gender, a group of people become overly aggressive and obsessive in making frequent use of the Internet, who tend to relegate other activities in order to browse the Internet.
Traditionally, televisi Continue Reading...
Internet Gambling: Consumers, Industry, And Regulation
Business Management
Final Year Project
Online gambling is a large and growing industry. Estimates from an industry consulting group indicate that as many as 2,000 firms worldwide are involved Continue Reading...
Addiction in Nursing
Both alcohol and drug abuse are a serious issue plaguing the nursing profession. Drug abuse in nursing includes both illegal drugs and prescribed medications. Not only do they acquire these drugs from dealers on the streets, but Continue Reading...
Internet Advertising as a Career Choice
Using the Internet, entrepreneurs can run sophisticated businesses from anywhere. That is why places like Boulder, Colorado, now have some of the densest concentrations of technology-related businesses in the Continue Reading...
[how] such activities fit into an individual's sexual biography and impact relationships between sexual partners and peers" (p. 1099).
Participants will be invited to complete a brief online questionnaire that details their participation in OSAs, a Continue Reading...
I do not believe there is anything the website could do to persuade people out of an addiction; the best it could hope for is to persuade people to begin fighting an addiction.
The web site really did not impact me personally, but it was not due to Continue Reading...
Pornography/The Internet
Today, technological and Internet advances have brought about some severe consequences, including the rise and exponential growth of online pornography sites. One effect of this has been a high level of exposure and even add Continue Reading...
In fact, Eijnden at al (2008) found that shy or socially anxious youth did not use instant messaging to foster friendships and instead used the Internet and their computers mainly for games and other non-social activities.
When used judiciously to Continue Reading...
They are at a point in their life where decisions in their life affect their future and sitting in front of a computer unless it is your field of study is not getting them anywhere. The factors of this addiction are the lack of socializing, entertai Continue Reading...
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
As Carr explains in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” media shapes the process by which people think. When one is reading a book, one has to think to stay engaged. If the mind wanders, no reading gets done. However Continue Reading...
This lead was accomplished through a partnership nearly a half-century old among government, industry and academia. I member of that partnership was the National Science Foundation (NSF). As Strawn noted, early on, scientists and engineers at Americ Continue Reading...
How Internet Addiction Impacts Teens Health
Introduction
The hypothesis of this study is that the Internet influence on adolescence can be negative in terms of mental, social and emotional health if Internet engagement is not moderated.
This research Continue Reading...
Even though Aronofsky speaks of art and artists relatively more often, I would say, than other young directors, there is a strong idea that nature still grounds art, in contrast to the illusions and hallucinations of artifice. In Selby's novel, Mari Continue Reading...
Filter Bubble
A Review of What the Internet Is Hiding From You
This paper reviews the book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You, by Eli Pariser. The purpose of this paper is to analyze this book in an attempt to determine where Continue Reading...
Internet Addictive Disorder or IAD is defined in this paper as a "maladaptive behavior surrounding the use of the Internet," and it was established earlier that this kind of disorder is not yet formally recognized, most especially among the scientif Continue Reading...
IAD on today's society, and attempt to outline how an individual with IAD can help overcome the limitations of the disorder.
First, IAD is defined, and its impact on society, as a whole, is discussed. The warning signs and symptoms of IAD are then Continue Reading...
Internet Addiction a Real Thing? Konnikova addresses the growing problem of internet addiction amongst current populations. She starts with the findings from Marc Potenza, a Yale psychiatrist. Twenty years ago, he began his career treating common ad Continue Reading...
Sex Offenders and the Internet
The types of sexual habits occurring online range from very unusual behaviors to others that are plain illegal (Caroline & Klein, 2014). A considerable amount of literature on sexual abuse of minors occurring and g Continue Reading...
Addiction: A brain disease with a biological foundation
Addiction is a brain disease with a biological foundation, which means that it couples together the mental and physical states of the individual in an action which can lead to negative or bad b Continue Reading...
This is what creates the continual need to share literally everything going on in their lives, as each post releases a significant dopamine rush (Charman-Anderson, 17, 18).
Dopamine is also the reason why the many forms of computer addiction are so Continue Reading...
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This study is particularly pertinent to the Asian Internet cafes and community situation as countries like Korea have become the center of the online gaming community. "If Japan is the hub of the console industry, then neighboring South Korea i Continue Reading...
These kinds of compulsive behaviors are observed on a daily basis. It has been highlighted by the authors that there is an acceptable use policy implicated on the students in academic institutions and on the daily basis, without regarding the restri Continue Reading...
Depression and Internet Usage
Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?
With the advent of the World Wide Web, a network of computers previously relegated to the world of science, engineerin Continue Reading...
Sexual addiction is a disorder that is characterized by repetitive and compulsive thoughts about sex and sexual acts. Like other types of addictions the behavior must have a negative impact on the person so that it leads to issues with the person's s Continue Reading...
Internet has grown exponentially since its first introduction to the public. The precursor to the Internet was the ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Defense (Carlitz and Zinga, 1997) and the National Science Continue Reading...
" Another strongly associated physical symptom is the persistence of migraine. Wieland observes that 40% of severe IAD youth take medication for migraine. The physical detriment of migraine develops into lifelong problems that are many times hard to Continue Reading...
This term seems to have been coined in the 1990s when researchers were attempting to describe a constellation of behaviors observed in persons using the Internet to such an extent that it began to cause other aspects of their lives to become dysfun Continue Reading...
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When the drug impersonates the brain's natural stimuli, causing it to release dopamine, the brain - as is the case with methamphetamine use - will eventually recognize what is happening, in a sense, and will respond to the artificial stimuli Continue Reading...