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This chapter discusses social media addiction among adolescents in urban China from the U&G perspectives. Specifically, it covers social media penetration among adolescents in urban China, the gratifications adolescents obtained from social media use, the severity of social media addiction among adolescents in urban China, and social media addiction symptoms the adolescents experience. Moreover, the chapter elaborates on the relationships of social media addiction relative to the level of social media use, gratifications, and parental control.
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Huang, H. (2014). Uses, Gratifications, and Addiction of Social Media. In: Social Media Generation in Urban China. Understanding China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45441-7_4
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