Social Media: A Threat to Mental Health or an Opportunity to Communicate?

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Author(s): Elham Mohammadi (University of Zanjan, Iran)and Azam Masoumi (University of Zanjan, Iran)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael A. Brown Sr. (Florida International University, USA)and Leigh Hersey (University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4168-4.ch003

Keywords: Digital Communications / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter examines the path of human interaction by using modern technologies. There are two sides: those in favor of using modern technologies and those who argue that modern technologies have unwanted, detrimental effects on people's lives and health. This chapter explores virtual communication's properties. It focuses on the impact that using social media instead of face-to-face interaction has on the users' health, specifically mental health. In this viewpoint, social media is not an alternative to face-to-face interaction but a complementary device that reminds us the vitality of interaction even with those who are physically unavailable to us.

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