Is dialogue addictive?
Of loops, pride, and tensions in social media communication
In this study, we shed some light on the thinking behind Facebook addiction. Since social network system are dialogical
communication tools, we carve out a space for a theoretical and methodological alternative to the research on social media addiction, as it
relates specifically to Facebook addiction. Based on several meta-evaluations and synthesis of extant empirical research, we uncover the two
most prominent functionalist approaches sustaining these empirical researches. Upon pointing to their epistemological, theoretical and
methodological limitations, we delve into dialogic approach and theory with a view to isolate how and what it is in a dialogic communication
that makes it addictive. Finally, we offer some theoretical and methodological alternatives from a dialogical perspective on how to study
Facebook addiction.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Facebook addiction: A functionalist approach
- 2.1The social skill model of problematic internet usage (PIU)
- 2.2The uses and gratification model
- 3.Limitations of a functionalist approach to Facebook addiction
- 3.1The dialogical approach
- 3.1.1What is dialogue?
- 3.1.2The epistemological model of dialogue
- 3.1.3The aesthetic model of dialogue
- 3.1.4The model of open dialogue
- 4.Dialogue, love and addiction in Facebook
- 4.1Facebook and epistemological model of dialogue
- 4.2The five steps of addiction in the digital dialogue
- 4.3Aesthetic dialogue and Facebook addiction
- 5.Suggestions for a dialogical approach to Facebook addiction
- 6.Conclusion: Dialogue and Facebook addiction
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