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Internet Addiction - A Critical Psychology of Users (Paperback)
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Internet Addiction - A Critical Psychology of Users (Paperback)
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
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This essential 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
and critiquing the political economy of the Internet affecting all
users. Friedman explores the limitations of individual-centered
remediations exemplified in the psychology of internet addiction.
Furthermore, Friedman outlines the self-creative actions of social
media users, and the data processing that exploits them to urge
psychologists to politicize rather than pathologize the effects of
excessive net use. The book develops a notion of capitalist
imperialism of the social web and studies this using the radical
methods of philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix
Guattari. By synthesizing perspectives on digital life from
sociology, economics, digital media theory, and technology studies
for psychologists, this book will be of interest to academics and
students in these areas, as well as psychologists and counselors
interested in addressing Internet Addiction as a collective,
societal ill.
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