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Excessive use of technology: can tech providers be the culprits?

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Ofir Turel,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 64, Issue 1

Pages 42 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/3392664

Published: 17 December 2020 Publication History

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Seeking to assess the possible responsibility of tech providers for excessive use patterns.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 64, Issue 1

January 2021

115 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/3444848

Editor:
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Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY

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