
Saved by Maurice Cronin and
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
Saved by Maurice Cronin and
Pleasure of some sort—whether benign, problematic, or illicit—is involved in our daily interactions with the Internet. If there is a certain compulsiveness to our online experience, then it is because our internet experience shares in an economy of desire, pleasure, and cycles of stimulation and diminishing return that potentially lead to addictive... See more