Internet addiction : a critical psychology of users / Emaline Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Emaline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet addiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

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 Félix 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.

Contents:

Intro

Endorsements

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

1. Introduction

Introduction

2. A brief take on "internet addiction" in psychology

Stabilizing the motivational system in the name of reality

3. Schizoanalysis, technology, and sociality

Technology through the lens of schizoanalysis

Social forms

The absolute productivity of desire

Getting hooked

4. Users and technologies of self

Regimes of signs and subjectivity

Users and technologies of self

Artificial individualization of users

5. Extraction machine of social media

Extraction machine of social media

Facebook and the profit motive

Vectoralist power

6. Data collection and the relational factory

Dependence and lock-in

Social mapping as value production: Part one

The relational factory

Social mapping as value production: Part two

7. Conclusion

A proposal to psychologists

Desire

Collective user-sovereignty

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-114) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-05605-2

0-429-50837-9

9780429056055

OCLC:

1227269957