Media Addiction and Political Participation

Apperance of social networks on mobile devices enables each one of use to stay connected on the go. This produced digital revolution in our societies and caused increased media use. On the other hand, participatry activities decrease. Inspired with these social data and tehorietical background of anomie, alienation, mass society and narcissism, armed with innovative measures of media addiction in Serbia, this study concludes media overusers tend to participare less in political processes. Because of new methodology, army of lighter addicts fall into focus because of potentially great social impact. Mild or lighter addicts may be problem of future socieites and under the beam of social scientists and government regulations. Above that, really the main question of this book persists to be what kind of effects on wellbeing are caused by increased media use. The study discovers Internet addicts have decreased expression capabilities. The future research should examine how modern everyday media use affects feelings of happiness and fulfillment.

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Dr Ljubisa Bojic is innovator in social psychology from Serbia. He works on Symbols- system for neurolingustic social network analysis. Bojic defended his PhD thesis in political sciences at the Institute for Political Studies Lyon at the University Lumiere Lyon 2, France. He currently works as a researcher at the Engineering Faculty in Kragujevac.