{"615195":{"#nid":"615195","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Facebook and Instagram Became as Addictive as Painkillers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/rosenberger\u0022\u003ERobert Rosenberger\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E, was recently referenced in a \u003Cem\u003ECNET\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;How Facebook and Instagram Became as Addictive as Painkillers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead an excerpt here:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to apps and social media platforms, the habit forms less around what we see, and more around the anticipation of what we could potentially experience when we check our smartphones or open an app.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe motivation element comes when the smartphone vibrates. You might feel a spark of excitement. Did someone like your photo? Do you have a new message or follower?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, we\u0026#39;re so fixated on our devices that we feel them buzz or hear them ring when they\u0026#39;re not. About 90 percent of smartphone users have experienced\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/a-to-z-guides\/news\/20160111\/phones-phantom-vibration\u0022\u003EPhantom Vibration Syndrome\u003C\/a\u003E, according to findings from Dr. Robert Rosenberger at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/download.cnet.com\/news\/how-facebook-and-instagram-became-as-addictive-as-painkillers\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech School of Public Policy is a unit of the\u003Ca href=\u0022www.iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-12-10 18:08:41","changed_gmt":"2019-01-17 18:31:22","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Raphael Warnock","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/download.cnet.com\/news\/how-facebook-and-instagram-became-as-addictive-as-painkillers\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405881":{"id":"405881","type":"image","title":"Robert Rosenberger","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1539181769","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:29:29","alt":"Photo portrait of School of Public Policy professor Robert Rosenberger","file":{"fid":"76113","name":"robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40625,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg?itok=DSNltKPQ"}}},"media_ids":["405881"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"36251","name":"robert rosenberger"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}