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Threat Talk: The Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction

By Mary Manjikian

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate
Year
2012
ISBN
1409433943, 9781409433941
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1085776 bytes)
Pages
200\200
Time added
2021-07-18 06:09:13

Description

Threat Talk' exposes how US and Chinese scientists and policy-makers have understood and responded to the problem of internet addiction in their societies. Mary Manjikian's culturalist approach claims that the internet is neither inherently helpful, nor inherently threatening. Rather, its role and the dangers it poses may be understood differently by different societies. Cover Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1 Risk Assessment, Power and the Politics of Fear 2 Psychiatry, Antipsychiatry and Internet Addiction 3 Critical Psychiatry and the Construction of Internet Addiction 4 Biosecurity and the Securitization of Internet Addiction 5 Internet Addiction and the Assault on Chinese Values Bibliography Index

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