A sociological reading on internet addiction researches in Iran

Today, the media technology as one of the most important change agendas, has been so much ingrained in people's lives in different societies that ignorance and neglecting it would cause a great disturbance in society and different social, cultural, political and economic aspects of it. Internet as one of the great achievement of mankind in the field of communication technology is no exception and has had a profound impact on human life in different societies, including advanced societies and undeveloped countries, from the beginning of time. The main question of the current study is that the researches of the last five years in Iran in the field of addiction are in which articulation according to their discourse.
The method of this research is text analysis. Its statistical society is the articles which have been published between 2010 to 2015 in the field of internet addiction. The sampling method is theoretical saturation. Sample size is 20 articles. The results show that the issue of internet addiction has been analyzed more by medical science and psychology and social science and communication science have been discourses ignorance. Also they show that this phenomenon is generally considered as a disease. Individualizing the internet addiction issue and isolating it from other social contexts of the phenomenon are another feature of these researches in Iran.