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Internet and Social Media Addiction. Andrea C. Nakaya. The United States: Reference Point Press, 2015. 96 P. Hard cover. ISBN-13: 978-1-60152-761-5 (e-book). $39.95.
This book is a fruitful discussion of the Internet and social media addiction in the digital era. It includes informative and impressive facts about this issue. It clarifies the consequences of the extreme usage of Internet and social media in four educative chapters. The publisher of this book, "ReferencePoint Press", introduced the "Compact Research Series" to think deeply with focusing on 3 types of information namely objective single author narratives, opinion-based primary source quotations as well as facts and statistics. The addiction series consists of five books examine the risk and challenges of different addictions, from synthetic drugs and heroin to gambling and Internet addiction. Andrea C. Nakaya, the author of this book has a Master's degree in Communication from San Diego State University. She has been working as a freelance author for almost a decade.
The foreword covers the challenge of overwhelming information in the digital age. The book starts with the summary of the content that essentially covers the main facts about prevalence, addiction rate in Asian countries, symptoms, recognition by the medical communities, causes, effects, profiting from addiction and the most effective treatments.
The overview section focuses on the global concern of the Internet and social media addiction in a short view. Researchers believe that between one and eight percent of users become addicted to the Internet and social media websites. Although the Internet and social media addiction is common in most countries, but South Korea, China,...