[Air-l] suggestions?

[Nicola Doering]

Charles:

Check out Joe Walther's intelligent academic parody of Internet 
Addiction by claiming "Communication Addiction Disorder" CAD:
http://psychcentral.com/archives/walther_cad.pdf
Applicable to so called email, texting etc. "addictions".

James Katz conducted an experiment on cell phone deprivation:
Katz, J. E. (2005). Mobile phones in educational settings. In K. Nyiri 
(Ed.), A sense of place: The global and the local in mobile 
communication (pp. 305-317). Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/ci/cmcs/publications/articles/mobile%20phones%20in%20educational%20settings.pdf#search=%22katz%20cell%20phone%20educational%22
pp. 97-98

Good luck,
Nicola


> Hi AoIRists,
> 
> I've been asked by a local TV station to comment on a story they're doing
> titled "Techno Detox".  They have one volunteer (so far) to engage in the
> following:
> 
> 
>>We are looking for individuals who are "addicted" to technology (iPod, cell
>>phone, texting, email, facebook/myspace, etc)
>>We would like to have those individuals tell us why they love their gadgets
>>and then have them go cold turkey for a few days.  We'll check in to see how
>>they're doing and then wrap up at the end of the week as they are allowed to
>>once again use those coveted items.
>>Now, failure can also be part of the story.  We just want people who are
>>willing to give it an honest effort, and candidly tell us about their
>>experience. 
> 
> 
> 1.  I know that someone(s) at AoIR in Brisbane mentioned a similar sort of
> process, but done (if memory serves - always a shaky assumption) as an
> academic study.  If anyone on the list who was also at AoIR in Brisbane can
> remember this conversation - can you please contact me offlist with the
> details of the study?
> 
> 2.  I have a number of qualms about participating in the story as a local
> "expert" - but hope that by doing so I might be able to defuse some of the
> prevailing dichotomies that seem to shape reporting on media (beginning, in
> this instance, by using the disease model of addiction as the primary
> frame).  Stated another way, I'm hoping to provide more informed and nuanced
> commentary that would help both the reporter and the audience move away from
> these sorts of notions of technology (good or bad? cure or disease? blessing
> or curse, etc.) - notions that fuel the sorts of "moral panic" reporting on
> new media (currently, e.g., connections between violent video games and
> recent episodes of violence in schools, etc.)
> 
> So ... does anyone have good research relevant to these concerns and the
> phenomena in question that you would recommend as useful background reading
> as I prepare for the interview?
> 
> Many thanks in advance -
> charles
> 
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