Governing (through) the Internet by Lori Reed
European Journal of Cultural Studies vol 5, issue 2
May 01, 2002
pp 131-153
Abstract
This article examines how definitions of `healthy’ and `unhealthy’, `appropriate’ and `inappropriate’ computer use are produced and mobilized by and through very specific American cultural ideals and interests. Following Foucault (1978) and Rose (1990, 1998), this article explores how the discourse on pathological computer use functions as a normalizing discourse — and as an apparatus of governance — by mapping correlations `between fields of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms of subjectivity’ in a particular context (Rose, 1998: 11). The article describes the historical management of computer fear and addiction, and the formation of the `computerphobe’ and `computer addict’ as products of a specific historical milieu. For example, the convergence of American (sub)cultures such as the drug counterculture, cyberpunk technoculture, and the `culture of addiction’ functioned as the conditions of possibility for the cultural intelligibility of `computer addiction’. At the same time, the article illustrates how computer use pathologies have been produced and mobilized toward the production and management of people’s developing relationships with this new media technology, even while it defines and produces — or governs — related definitions of `appropriate’ and `inappropriate’, or `normal’ and `abnormal’, social practice such as commercial property and labor efficiency.
http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/5/2/131.abstract
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The influences of information literacy, internet addiction & parenting styles on internet risks
by Louis Leung; Paul S.N. Lee
New Media & Society vol 14; issue 1 (Feb 2012) pp 117-136
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine how demographics, addiction symptoms, information literacy, parenting styles and internet activities can predict ‘internet risks’. Data were gathered from a probability sample of 718 adolescents and teenagers, aged 9–19 in Hong Kong, using face-to-face interviews. Results show that adolescents who are often targets of harassment tend to be older boys with a high family income. They are targets probably because they spend a lot of time on social networking sites (SNSs) and prefer the online setting. Adolescents who encounter a lot of unwelcome solicitation of personal or private information online tend to be older girls. In information literacy, they are generally very competent with publishing tools but are not structurally literate, especially in understanding how information is socially situated and produced. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/14/1/117.abstract
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Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissm by Louis Leung
Computers in Human Behavior vol 29; issue 3 (May 2013) pp 997-1006
Click to access Generational%20Differences%20&%20Social%20Media.pdf
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Is Facebook creating “iDisorders”? The link between clinical symptoms of sychiatric disorders and technology us, attitudes and anxiety by L.D. Rosen, K. Whaling, S. Rab, L.M. Carrier, N.A. Cheever
Computers in Human Behavior vol 29; issue 3 (May 2013) pp 1243-1254
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212003172