Note Génèrale sur le thème. 3 - L'addiction à Internet existe-t-elle ? Note sur l'article. Is Internet addiction real? If you believe what you read, "Internet addiction" is about to make us a nation of derelicts.
Men drooling over online pornography, women abandoning their husbands for chat-room lovers and people losing their life savings on gambling Web sites are just a few of the stories peddled in today's press. But despite the topic's prominence, published studies on Internet addiction are scarce. Most are surveys, marred by self-selecting samples and no control groups. The rest are theoretical papers that speculate on the philosophical aspects of Internet addiction but provide no data.
Note Sur l'Article. Internet: entre liberté et dépendance.