商品簡介
This thought provoking volume on Internet addiction explores the topic from the perspective of personal, cultural, and political dangers associated with increasing dependence on recreational information technologies. The work is a comparative study of US and Chinese responses to Internet addiction through both cultural reaction and direct governmental remedies. Topics discussed include critical psychiatry and constructions of Internet addiction, biosecurity and securitization of Internet addiction, and Internet addiction and the assault on Chinese values. Manjikian is a professor of government at Regents University, USA. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Mary Manjikian is an Assistant Professor in the Robertson School of Government, Regent University, USA. She has served as a Visiting Professor at the College of William and Mary and at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk. A former foreign service officer, Mary has also served as Assistant Press AttachAc in The Hague, Netherlands; Assistant Cultural AttachAc for Educational Affairs in Moscow, Russia, and Press AttachAc in Sofia, Bulgaria.
