internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use.
Titolo: | Being Online in Emerging Adulthood: Between Problematic or Functional Use of the Internet | |
Autore/i: | BENVENUTI, MARTINA; MAZZONI, ELVIS; Piobbico, Gioele | |
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Anno: | 2016 | |
Titolo del libro: | Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age | |
Pagina iniziale: | 226 | |
Pagina finale: | 246 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1856-3.ch014 | |
Abstract: | internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use. | |
Data stato definitivo: | 9-mag-2017 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.01 Capitolo / saggio in libro |