Emaline Friedman

Internet Addiction

A Critical Psychology of Users

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important book questions the psychological construct of Internet Addiction by contextualizing it within the digital technological era. It proposes a critical psychology that investigates user subjectivity as a function of capitalism and imperialism, arguing against punitive models of digital excesses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780367172916
• ISBN-10: 0367172917
• Artikelnr.: 60040066

Autorenporträt

Emaline Friedman, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and psychosocial theorist. Her research interests cover all forms of digital control and exploitation: data capitalism, platform labor, AI-enabled bigotry, and software cultures. She works on distributed ledger technologies to steer networked social organization toward human solidarity initiatives, environmental regeneration, and other forms of commoning.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Ian Parker
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
A Brief Take on "Internet Addiction" in Psychology
Chapter 3
Schizoanalysis, Technology, and Sociality
Chapter 4
Users and Technologies of Self
Chapter 5
Extraction Machine of Social Media
Chapter 6
Data Collection and the Relational Factory
Chapter 7
Conclusion