Raising Awareness of "Internet Addiction by design" and How to Respond
Fortunate to be asked by Chenye Anderson of 2SERFM at the University of Technology, Sydney, to give comment on What the Internet is Doing to our Heads?
While some of my statements were used, I felt the rest of the interview would be of interest to researchers, GPs, psychologists, concerned parents, and other media. So here is the uncut version above. Topics covered include:
- metadata laws
- Google Maps
- crowdsourced information
- filter bubble
- 3-6-9-12 guide to screen time
- impulsivity, compulsive behaviours
- disorders, diagnosed and undiagnosed related to technology (hardware and software)
- school responses to media literacy
- underlying issues, social problems, and online escapism
- time wasting on the Internet: students, workplace, other
- correlations between substance abuse and Internet addiction
- experiments and clinical trials and what they are saying
- exposure of children to online pornography
- physical and mental health issues related to Internet addiction
- responses by community, parents, children, technology companies
- where are we headed and what is needed