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  title info:
    title: Social Media Generation in Urban China
    sub title: A Study of Social Media Use and Addiction among Adolescents
  name:
    name part: Huang, Hanyun.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 143 p. 5 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Social media such as instant messaging (IM), social networking sites (SNS), blogs, and microblogs are an integral part of adolescents’ lives in China. Anecdotal evidence reported in the news has suggested that the increasing popularity of social media could make adolescents more vulnerable to being addicted. This exploratory study proposes the concept of “social media addiction” and examines (a) whether social media addiction exists among adolescents in urban China and, if so, who the addicts are, what their symptoms are, and to what extent they are addicted; (b) whether sociopsychological traits (e.g., need for affiliation, impression management, narcissism, and leisure boredom) can predict social media addiction among adolescents; (c) what gratifications are obtained by adolescents from their use of social media and whether these gratifications can predict social media addiction; and (d) to what degree social media addiction influences adolescents’ academic performance and social capital. This study employed quantitative questionnaire surveys among adolescents as the main research method, supplemented by qualitative pre-survey focus groups among adolescents and post-survey in-depth interviews among parents and teachers. Questionnaire surveys were conducted based on a multi-stage cluster sampling of seven middle schools in five urban Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Xiamen. The final sample consisted of 1,549 adolescents, of whom 90% had used social media. Using Young’s classic definition of Internet addiction, 15.6% of participants were classified as social media addicts. The addicted adolescents were often self-absorbed, bored with their leisure time, and good at using manipulation through social media for impression management. Addicts experienced four major social media addiction symptoms: preoccupation, adverse consequences, alleviation of negative emotions, and loss of interest in social activities. The seven social media gratificati…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Literature Review -- Research Methods -- Uses, Gratifications, and Addiction of Social Media -- Social Media Addiction and Sociopsychological Traits -- Social Media Addiction, Academic Performance, and Social Capital -- Beyond the Survey: What Parents and Teachers Said -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References.
  note: by Hanyun Huang.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Communication Studies
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  classification: P87-96
  classification: 302.2
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Understanding China
  identifier: 9783642454417
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45441-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 140118
    record change date: 20151120174441.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-45441-7