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Are We Overconsuming Electronic and Social Media?
What are the direct and indirect health effects of our use of electronic and social media?

by Thomas E. Billings

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Annotated Reference and Link List

 

Links below are functional as-of 21 April 2013.

 

Android installed base will exceed the installed base for Windows devices:

·        Ahonen, T (2012) Android Won. Windows Lost. Now what? The Battle of the Century is Decided. Microsoft relegated to ever smaller PC corner as Google conquers the world. Communities Dominate Brands. Full text.

 

Television

·        The Time Use Survey, 2005 (published 2006) U.K .Office for National Statistics. Full text.

·        American Time Use Survey (2010) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Full text.

·        Japanese cartoon triggers seizures in hundreds of children (1997) CNN (Cable News Network). Full text.

·        Lucas M et al. (2011) Relation between clinical depression risk and physical activity and time spent watching television in older women: a 10-year prospective follow-up study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 174(9P): 1017-1027. Abstract.

·        Depp CA et al. (2010) Age, affective experience, and television use. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 39(2): 173–178. Full text.

·        de Wit L et al. (2011) Are sedentary television watching and computer use behaviors associated with anxiety and depressive disorders? Psychiatry Research. 186(2–3): 239–243. Journal table of contents.

·        Teychenne M et al. (2010) Sedentary behavior and depression among adults: a review. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 17(4): 246-254. Abstract.

·         National Television Violence Study, Volume 1 (1997). University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Texas, Austin; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. Google Books: no text view; check WorldCat for a library copy.

 

Video games

·        Sherry JL (2001) The effects of violent video games on aggression. Human Communication Research. 27(3): 409-431. Full text.

·        Anderson CA et al. (2010) Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in Eastern and Western countries: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin. 136(2): 151–173. Full text.

·        Belchior P et al. (2013) Video game training to improve selective visual attention in older adults. Computers in Human Behavior. 29(4): 1318-1324. Journal table of contents.

·        Lin JH (2013) Do video games exert stronger effects on aggression than film? The role of media interactivity and identification on the association of violent content and aggressive outcomes. Computers in Human Behavior. 29(3): 535-543. Journal table of contents.

 

Mobile phones and cancer

·        Hours M et al. (2007) Cell Phones and Risk of brain and acoustic nerve tumours: the French INTERPHONE case-control study. Revue D'epidemiologie et de Sante Publique. 55(5):321-332. Abstract at Europe PubMed Central.

·        Lahkola A et al. (2008) Meningioma and mobile phone use—a collaborative case-control study in five North European countries. International Journal of Epidemiology. 37(6): 1304-1313. Full text.

·        Hardell L et al. (2008) Meta-analysis of long-term mobile phone use and the association with brain tumours. International Journal of Oncology. 32: 1097-1103. Full text.

·        Khurana VG et al. (2009) Cell phones and brain tumors: a review including the long-term epidemiologic data. Surgical Neurology. 72(3): 205–214. Full text.

·        Myung SK et al. (2009) Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 27(33): 5565-5572. Full text.

·        Lai H et al. (2011) Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation Exposure and Glucose Metabolism. JAMA. 305(8):828-829. Full text.

·        Volkow ND et al. (2011) Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism. JAMA. 305(8):808-813. Full text.

·        Zhao TY et al. (2011) Exposure to cell phone radiation up-regulates apoptosis genes in primary cultures of neurons and astrocytes. Neuroscience Letters. 412(1): 34–38. Full text.

 

Effects on Memory

·        Bohannon J (2011) Searching for the Google Effect on People's Memory. Science. 333(6040): 277. Summary.

·        Sparrow B et al. (2011) Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips. Science. 333(6043): 776-778. Abstract.

 

Internet Addiction

·        Tao R (2010) Proposed diagnostic criteria for internet addiction. Addiction. 105(3): 556–564, Full text.

·        Weinstein A et al. (2010) Internet addiction or excessive internet use. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 36(5): 277-283. Abstract.

·        Byun S et al. (2009) Internet addiction: metasynthesis of 1996-2006 quantitative research. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 12(2): 203-207. Abstract.

·        Young K (2009) Internet addiction: diagnosis and treatment considerations. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 39(4): 241-246. Full text.

·        Ko CH (2009) The Associations Between Aggressive Behaviors and Internet Addiction and Online Activities in Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. 44(6): 598–605. Journal table of contents.

·        Selfhout MHW (2009) Different types of Internet use, depression, and social anxiety: The role of perceived friendship quality. Journal of Adolescence. 32(4): 819-833. Full text.

·        Ko CH (2009) Brain activities associated with gaming urge of online gaming addiction. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 43(7): 739-747. Journal table of contents.

·        Choi M et al. (2012) Computer and Internet Interventions for Loneliness and Depression in Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis. Healthcare Informatics Research. 18(3):191-198. Full text.

 

Facebook

·        Rainie L et al. (2013) Coming and Going on Facebook. Pew Internet & American Life Project, Washington, DC. Full text.

·        Junco (2012) Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple indices of Facebook use and academic performance. Computers in Human Behavior. (1): 187–198. Full text.

·        Moreno MA et al. (2011) Feeling Bad on Facebook: Depression disclosures by college students on a Social Networking Site. Depression and Anxiety. 28:447-455. Full text at Europe PubMed Central.

·        Ryan T et al. (2011) Who uses Facebook? An investigation into the relationship between the Big Five, shyness, narcissism, loneliness, and Facebook usage. Computers in Human Behavior. 27(5): 1658–1664. Journal table of contents.

·        Ljepava N et al. (2013) Personality and social characteristics of Facebook non-users and frequent users. Computers in Human Behavior. 29(4): 1602–1607. Journal table of contents.

·        Grieve R et al. (2013) Face-to-face or Facebook: Can social connectedness be derived online? Computers in Human Behavior. 29(3): 604-609. Journal table of contents.

·        Steinfield C et al. (2008) Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 29(6): 434–445. Full text.

 

Social effects

·        Shirky C (2010) Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators. London/New York: The Penguin Group. Google Books: preview available.

 

--Thomas E. (Tom) Billings

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