English 130 on Internet Issues

Online Gaming Addiction: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Self-Control, Neuroticism, Aggression, State Anxiety, and Trait Anxiety.

"Bupropion Sustained Release Treatment Decreases Craving for Video Games and Cue-Induced Brain Activity in Patients With Internet Video Game Addiction"

Mental Health, Personality, and Parental Rearing Styles of Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder.

interesting slides about "friends" online and offline

this article explains how certain companies follow terrorist online and provide us with terrorist movement and related issues quicker then any other source.

This site has a lot of facts about social media along with how social media relates to identity.

Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people's electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world. Make that 9.9 billion and change.

how twitter can be used for educational activites.

Twitter Skills and Twitter Followers… who wants some? This Twitter Marketing resource introduces you to the best Twitter tips and Twitter How tos… period. Each chapter contains several links to hand-picked blog posts that improve your Twitter skills and teach you how to get traffic with social media.

Three hours outside Bucharest, Romanian National Road 7 begins a gentle ascent into the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps. Meadowlands give way to crumbling houses with chickens in the front yard, laundry flapping on clotheslines. But you know you've arrived in the town of Râmnicu Vâlcea when you see the Mercedes-Benz dealership.

Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves-double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009).

There are those who spend — literally — a few hours a day on Twitter. Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy wanted to know why.

Article about son's addiction, father says "He displayed the characteristics of a heroin addict"

Good website to find articles.

what social media is doing and has done.

Vitak, J. (2008). Facebook "friends": How online identity affects offline relationships. Master's thesis, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.