Faculty of Education Faculty of Education Department of Educational Sciences and Digital Addiction Specialist Prof.Dr. Dr. Tuncay Dilci said that the effort to reach information with technology has turned into addiction. Prof. Dr. Dilci, “We see that there is a significant addiction in getting manic information in our country. We call it manic disorder. Manic disorder is expressed in the form of information addiction. With the idea that it will lose, we can say that this situation has turned into a kind of impulse disorder and that a person’s smartphone in Turkey is on average. It is seen that individuals open and close the screen by keeping the phone at a continuous distance, but in some of them; to feel restless or anxious, to spend time with enough information consumption to disrupt daily jobs, to consume everything without questioning the accuracy of information ” he said.
‘Widespread in students and researchers’
This situation may vary from person to person. Dr. Dilci, “Manic information disorder varies from person to person. This disorder is often seen in perfectionist and obsessed people. They constantly feel the need to obtain more information. In addition, people who feel lack of knowledge, have an anxiety disorder. This disorder becomes more widespread among students and researchers” he said.
‘Digital Diet is required’
Dilci, who gave information about the fight against manic information disorder, “First of all, it is necessary to limit the consumption of information. Not to read all kinds of information that comes before us, but to select and arrange the information that is useful to our interests and us. It is necessary to contact our smartphones in the sense of smart phones as possible to contact a certain extent. He said. “
