Internet and Social Media Addiction
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چکیده
This book is a fruitful discussion of the Internet and social media addiction in the digital era. It includes informative and impressive facts about this issue. It clarifies the consequences of the extreme usage of Internet and social media in four educative chapters. The publisher of this book, “ReferencePoint Press”, introduced the “Compact Research Series” to think deeply with focusing on 3 types of information namely objective single author narratives, opinion-based primary source quotations as well as facts and statistics. The addiction series consists of five books examine the risk and challenges of different addictions, from synthetic drugs and heroin to gambling and Internet addiction. Andrea C. Nakaya, the author of this book has a Master’s degree in Communication from San Diego State University. She has been working as a freelance author for almost a decade.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Webology
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015