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What is Digital Addiction

Handbook of Research on Perspectives on Society and Technology Addiction
the state of spending too much time in digital objects and virtual environments.
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Life in the Digital World
Tolga Karadas (Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey), Tuncay Dilci (Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey), and Nuray Özge Sagbas (Ministry of National Education, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8397-8.ch013
Abstract
For millions of years, mankind has made countless inventions and discoveries. These inventions are basically designed to facilitate humanity's life and serve humanity. So much so that at the cutting edge of technology, there are devices or virtual environments that can listen to people, talk to them, guide them, communicate with them, read, calculate, remember, remind, play, and do many other things on their behalf. Developments that have completely changed people's living habits have brought along many positive and negative developments. With the development of technology, the most widely used technological development is digital objects and virtual environments. Due to the existence of these objects and environments and the possibilities, diversity, and audiovisual richness they offer to people, many of them have deeply affected our perception of life and lifestyle. The basis of these effects is dependent on these devices and environments.
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