- A note about references:
Where possible and my sources are open access I have hyperlinked them within the text in addition to within this list. I have used a combination of books, video and audio files, webpages, open access journals, and journals available to University of Edinburgh licensed users.
Further sources not cited directly but which have formed part of my preparatory background reading and which may be of interest, can be found here:
- American Psychiatric Association ‘DSM Development’, http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx and ‘Report of the DSM-5 Substance-Related Disorders Work Group’, http://www.dsm5.org/progressreports/pages/0811reportofthedsm-vsubstance-relateddisordersworkgroup.aspx (retrieved on various dates April 2011).
- Beato, G (2010) ‘Internet Addiction’, Reason, 42, 4, pp. 16-17, Academic Search Elite, EBSCOhost, (retrieved 18th April 2011).
- Boellstorff, T. (2010) Coming of Age in Second Life, (Princeton: Princeton University Books).
- Brooker, C. (2010) ‘Google Instant is trying to kill me’, The Guardian 13th September 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/13/charlie-brooker-google-instant (retrieved 15th April, 2011 ).
- Cooper, C. ‘Technology.Overload’? (2011) personal blog entry. http://carycooperblog.com/2011/01/13/technology-overload/(accessed 10th April 2011).
- Dworscha David, L. (2007) ‘No time to think: Reflections on information technology and contemplative scholarship’, Ethics & Information Technology, 9, 4, pp. 237-249, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, EBSCOhost,( retrieved 26th March 2011).
- Dworschak, M. (2010) ‘Logging Off: The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World’, Spiegel Online 8th June 2010 http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710139-2,00.html (retrieved 26th January 2011).
- Else, L 2006, ‘I’ll have to ask my friends’, New Scientist, 191, 2569, pp. 48-49, Academic Search Elite, EBSCOhost, (retrieved 24 April 2011).
- Frankl, V. (2011) reports on a 21st Century affliction – ‘Internet Addiction Disorder. Should this be classed as a mental health issue’? BBC World Service Discovery: Caught in the Web broadcast 23rd March 13:32 (28mins).
- Gee, J. P. (2003). ‘Learning and Identity: what does it mean to be half-elf’? In What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy, (pp. 51-71). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Licensed for use for the course: “EDUA11222 – An Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning).
- Goldberg, I. (1997) ‘Ivan Goldberg discusses Internet Addiction’, New Yorker, January 13th 1997 http://www.psycom.net/iasg.html (retrieved 18th April 2011).
- Griffiths, M. (2000) ‘Internet Addiction – time to be taken seriously?’, Addiction Research, October, SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost, (retrieved 6th April 2011).
- Griffiths, M. (2010) ‘Internet abuse and internet addiction in the workplace’, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 22 Iss: 7, pp.463 – 472 (retrieved 24th April 2011, Emerald Insight).
- Gunn, M. (2011) Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle in ‘IT Conversations’: a conversations network channel from the Tech Nation series, about her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other broadcast 17th February (retrieved 8th April 2011).
- Hardie, E, Tee, M. (2007) ‘Excessive Internet Use: The Role of Personality, Loneliness and Social Support Networks in Internet Addiction’, Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.34-47 http://www.swinburne.edu.au/hosting/ijets/journal/V5N1/pdf/Article3_Hardie.pdf (retrieved 11th April, 2011).
- International Center for Media & the Public Affairs (ICMPA) in partnership with the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change. (2011) ‘the world UNPLUGGED’, http://theworldunplugged.wordpress.com/ (accessed on various dates April 2011).
- Johnson, S. (2006) Everything Bad is Good for You, (London: Penguin).
- Kubey, R. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2002) ‘Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor’, Scientific American February 23 2002, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=television-addiction-is-n-2002-02 (retrieved 18th April 2011).
- Miniwatts Marketing Group ‘Internet Usage and World Population Statistics: The Internet Big Picture World Internet and Population User Stats.’, Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics, http://www.internetworldstats.com/ accessed various dates April 2011).
- O’Regan, C. (2011) ‘Divided Attention Disorder? Log off and read a book’, BBC News World 9th February 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12406677 (retrieved 19th April 2011).
- Oxford Dictionary of English. Edited by Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. (retrieved 22 April 2011 )
- Oxford Dictionary of English. Edited by Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. (retrieved 22 April 2011)
- Pew Internet and American Life Project pages including ‘Demographics of internet users’, http://www.pewinternet.org/Data-Tools/Download-Data/Trend-Data.aspx and ‘Generations on-line in 2010’, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1831/generations-online-2010’, (accessed various dates April 2011).
- Porter, G, & Kakabadse, N. (2006), ‘HRM perspectives on addiction to technology and work’, Journal of Management Development, 25, 6, pp. 535-560, Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost, (downloaded 12th April 2011).
- Prensky, M. (2009) ‘H.Sapiens Digital: From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom’, innovate journal of on-line education Feb/March 2009, Volume 5, Issue 3 http://www.innovateonline.info/pdf/vol5_issue3/H._Sapiens_Digital-From_Digital_Immigrants_and_Digital_Natives_to_Digital_Wisdom.pdf (downloaded 29th April 2011).
- Richtel, Matt (2010) ‘Attached to Technology and Paying a Price’, The New York Times June 6th 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?_r=2 (downloaded 11th April 2011).
- Stone, L. (2009) Bloomberg Business Week – Business at work: time management (blog entry) ‘Continuous Partial Attention — Not the Same as Multi-Tasking’, http://www.businessweek.com/business_at_work/time_management/archives/2008/07/continuous_part.html (retrieved 19th April 2011).
- Thatcher, A, Wretschko, G, & Fridjhon, P (2008) ‘Online flow experiences, problematic Internet use and Internet procrastination’, Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 5, pp. 2236-2254, ScienceDirect, EBSCOhost, (retrieved 24 April 2011).
- Tobin, L. (2011) ‘How to beat technology addiction’, The Guardian, 14th February 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/14/information-overload-research (retrieved 4th April, 2011).
- Turkle, S. (1997) Life on the Screen, (London: Phoenix).
- Turkle, S. (2005) The Second Self, (The MIT Press, sample chapters) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10515 (retrived 29th April 2011).
- Turkle, S. (2011) Alone Together, (New York: Basic Books).
- Widyanto, L. Griffiths, M. (2006) ‘Internet Addiction: a Critical Review’, Int. J Ment Health Addict, 4: p.p. 31-51 http://www.austgamingcouncil.org.au/images/pdf/eLibrary/3043.pdf (retrieved 1st May 2011).
- Young, K.S. (1996) ‘Internet Addiction: The Emergence of a New Clinical Disorder’, CyberPsychology and Behavior, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 237-244 http://newmedia.cityu.edu.hk/COM5108/readings/newdisorder.pdf (retrieved 11th April, 2011).
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