TY - CHAP
T1 - Media Addiction
AU - Leung, Louis
AU - Liang, Jingwen
AU - Zhang, Yin
N1 - publisher Copyright
© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/3/8
Y1 - 2017/3/8
N2 - This entry discusses the origins, theoretical traditions, and methodological development of the field of media addiction in the past two decades. Specifically, the theoretical underpinnings, definitions, symptoms, and assessments of media addiction are reviewed, and its critical overlap with the research on chemical-based addiction is addressed. On the basis of this conceptual review, a content analysis of the latest developments in four of the most frequently researched media addiction themes in recent years is presented: Internet addiction, online game addiction, smartphone addiction, and cybersex addiction. This review and its results then serve to inform conclusions about the significance and relevance of media addiction and its context-specific contingencies and to suggest several fruitful directions for future research.
AB - This entry discusses the origins, theoretical traditions, and methodological development of the field of media addiction in the past two decades. Specifically, the theoretical underpinnings, definitions, symptoms, and assessments of media addiction are reviewed, and its critical overlap with the research on chemical-based addiction is addressed. On the basis of this conceptual review, a content analysis of the latest developments in four of the most frequently researched media addiction themes in recent years is presented: Internet addiction, online game addiction, smartphone addiction, and cybersex addiction. This review and its results then serve to inform conclusions about the significance and relevance of media addiction and its context-specific contingencies and to suggest several fruitful directions for future research.
U2 - 10.1002/9781118783764.wbieme0173
DO - 10.1002/9781118783764.wbieme0173
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 9781118784044
T3 - The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects
SP - 879
EP - 893
BT - The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication
A2 - Rössler , Patrick
A2 - Hoffner , Cynthia A.
A2 - Zoonen , Liesbet van
PB - Wiley
ER -