Internet Addiction in Ch

ina
Yue Zhu
 A recent case in China
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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01
/ff_internetaddiction/
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About a fourteen-year old boy died in a cam
p which is used to cure the so-called interne
t addiction.
 What’s netizen
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Beyond 6 with using Internet for more than
a half year(Baidu Baike)
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Netizen population
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A variety of people
 Fast development less care for the y
ounger generation
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Majority: Students
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Why? Personal experience and interviews w
ith Chinese fellows
 The education level distribution of
netizen population
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Majority: High school students
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Why? Personal experience
 Internet Addiction
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Definition of Internet addiction, more broad
ly Internet overuse(Courtesy of Wikipedia).
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Examples, addicted to shopping online, and
uncontrolled use of social network websites
, like Facebook and Twitter.
 The rise of online games
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From Legend to World of Warcraft.
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Why so many student are addicted to the on
line games?
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The motivation and the attraction.
 Effects of virtual world on the real
life
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Crimes like theft, robbery, but more frequen
t is to use the Trojan horse to get others’ acc
ounts.(Many cases)
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Slippery in the class, even long time absence
of schooling
 What government can do
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Promulgate some rules to restrict the age ra
nge in the net bars.
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Make Internet addiction as disease, promulg
ate some medical references

The effect and why
 What society can do
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Organizations and experts give the voluntar
y lectures help students and their relatives
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Results? Why not so effective(area, public at
tention)
 What parents can do
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Send students to the personal hospitals and
seek extreme methods(bonding their sons
with chair or bed) to cure their sons
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Combined with China’s birth control policy,
why Chinese parents are so crucial ？
 Personal Interview with psychologica
l professor in FSU
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American situation seems better than that i
n China
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The deeds of Chinese parents sending their
sons to the personal hospitals are not accept
able.
 My motivation and suggestion
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Why do I try to figure out what happened on
my fellows?
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My suggestions ： Take part in more sports
and stay with friends instead of surfing on t
he internet.
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Go to a park or have a trip to get close to the
nature.
Thank you for your attendance
Any Questions?