Being Online in Emerging Adulthood: Between Problematic or Functional Use of the Internet

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Author(s): Martina Benvenuti (University of Bologna, Italy), Elvis Mazzoni (University of Bologna, Italy)and Gioele Piobbico (University of Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
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.ch032

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

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Internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use.

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