{"id":2040,"date":"2008-03-24T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2008-03-24T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:35:00","slug":"addiction-to-internet-is-an-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Addiction to internet &#8216;is an illness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/information\/theobserver\/story\/0,,1038111,00.html\">Observer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/mar\/23\/news.internet?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=technology\">Addiction to internet &#8216;is an illness&#8217;<\/a> (David Smith, Sunday March 23 2008). The story mentions research by Dr. Jerald Block and case studies from South Korea. Internet addiction has these components:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Excessive use, often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives;<\/li>\n<li>Withdrawal, including feelings of anger, tension and\/or depression when the computer is inaccessible;<\/li>\n<li>The need for better computers, more software, or more hours of use;<\/li>\n<li>Negative repercussions, including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation and fatigue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is blogging an addiction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the Guardian Observer, Addiction to internet &#8216;is an illness&#8217; (David Smith, Sunday March 23 2008). The story mentions research by Dr. Jerald Block and case studies from South Korea. Internet addiction has these components: Excessive use, often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Addiction to internet &#8216;is an illness&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}