A Review of Internet Addiction on the Basis of Different Countries (2007–2017)

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Author(s): Ruya Samli (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 21
Source title: Internet and Technology Addiction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8900-6.ch002

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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This chapter presents a review of Internet addiction on the basis of different countries between the years of 2007 and 2017. For this purpose, the term “addiction” is explained, some addiction types are examined, the differences between Internet addiction and the other ones are given and the Internet addiction status of different countries are presented. In today's world, Internet addiction is a privileged problem in almost all of the countries but especially a few countries have important number of studies about the subject. The most studies are completed in China, Turkey, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea. In this chapter, studies about these countries and some other ones are investigated. These studies show that the “Far East” is suffering from the problem a bit more than the others.

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