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An investigation of the dark side of information technology use: three essays on IT addiction
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Vaghefi, Ashraf Eshagh, Seyed |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Despite the overwhelming number of studies on Information Technology (IT) use and adoption, there is a growing concern among researchers in psychology, health, and IS that problematic IT usage can create serious challenges for individuals, organizations, and even society. Hence, there is a need to devote additional research efforts to better understand the dark side of IT use and to identify undesired forms of IT use, especially in regard to excessive and compulsive use behaviors. From this perspective, this dissertation adopts a multi-method, multi-essay approach to investigate issues related to IT addiction. Accordingly, the first essay investigates users' liability to IT addiction and looks at its variations among IT users. Based on data collected from in-depth interviews and exploratory open-ended surveys from smartphone users, the results allow the identification of five main types of user liability with unique usage behaviors: Addict, Fanatic, Highly Engaged, Regular, and Thoughtful. The second essay proposes a process model to explain the development of IT addiction. Using qualitative data collected from both smartphones and social network users and following a grounded theory approach, we propose a three-phase model to explain how IT addiction develops through interactions between users, technology, and environment (using technology affordances). Finally, the third essay focuses on technology craving. More precisely, we aim at explaining technology craving by discussing users' motivations and the needs that are being fulfilled by technology use. From a review of the literature, we develop a conceptual model that highlights the role of key users' needs in relation to craving in the context of social networks and the interactions between the structural features of technology and users' needs as a way to predict social network craving. %%%%Malgre le nombre impressionnant d'etudes sur l'utilisation et l'adoption des technologies de l'information (TI), il y a une preoccupation croissante pour les chercheurs en psychologie, en sante et en SI sur le fait que l'utilisation des TIs peut apporter des problemes graves pour les individus, les organisations et meme la societe. Par consequent, il est necessaire de faire des efforts de recherche supplementaire pour mieux comprendre le cote obscur de l'utilisation de TI et d'identifier les formes indesirables de cette utilisation, en particulier en ce qui concerne les comportements excessifs et compulsifs qui y sont lies. Dans cette perspective, cette these adopte une approche multi-methode et multi-article pour etudier les questions liees a la dependance aux TIs. Le premier article presente une etude sur la susceptibilite des utilisateurs a la dependance aux TIs. L'etude permet d'identifier les variations de ce potentiel chez les utilisateurs de telephones intelligents. Base sur des donnees recueillies lors d'entretiens et des resultats d'une enquete exploratoire avec questions ouvertes aupres d'utilisateurs de telephones intelligents, cette etude a permis d'identifier les… |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
