The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been
investigated since the mid-1990s, but the delineation between beneficial
and pathological use of digital media has not been established, and
there are no widely accepted diagnostic criteria. Some experts consider
overuse a manifestation of underlying psychiatric disorders, but
moderate digital media use has been found beneficial to mental health.
Digital addictions and dependencies have also been widely studied. The
links between digital media use and mental health outcomes appear to
depend on the individuals and the platforms they use. The eleventh
revision of the International Classification of Diseases includes a
gaming disorder diagnosis (commonly known as video game addiction), but
neither it nor the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, Fifth Edition includes diagnoses for problematic internet use
or problematic social media use.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media_use_and_mental_health>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1856:
Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author
George Eliot (portrait shown), was submitted for publication.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_of_Clerical_Life>
1869:
In the first official American football game, Rutgers College
defeated the College of New Jersey 6–4 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_New_Jersey_vs._Rutgers_football_game>
1939:
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual
elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of
the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_Krakau>
1944:
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of
Washington produced its first plutonium, with the facility later going
on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Hansard:
1. (historical, also attributively) A member of a Hanse (“merchant
guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town. […]
2. (chiefly Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) The official report of
debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth
parliaments.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hansard>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big,
awkward, sprawling country very much — and its big, awkward, sprawling
people. Anyway, I don't like politics; and I don't make "political
gestures" … I don't even believe in politics. To me, politics is like
one of those annoying, and potentially dangerous (but generally just
painful) chronic diseases that you just have to put up with in your life
if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes.
It's a science, a catch-as-catch-can science, which has grown up out of
simple animal necessity more than anything else. If I were twice as big
as I am, and twice as physically strong, I think I'd be a total
anarchist.
--James Jones
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Jones>