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Technophobia and Technostress |
Technostress is directly related to technophobia. Click here for more technophobia facts.
Does your company have technophobia? Click here to find out.
Dr. Michelle M. Weil, Ph.D. and Dr. Larry Rosen, Ph.D. are experts on Technostress. They have written a book titled Technostress: Coping with Technology @work, @home, @play. (Order this book from Amazon.com)
People who suffer from cyberphobia are predominantly children and older adults. Children are even more affected by cyberphobia when their teachers suffer from the affliction.
Avoiding the ATM: Studies Show Training Can Reduce Technophobia Among Older Adults speaks about the feelings older adults have about technology. A radio show that was done already in 1993, Technophobia: The Social Disease of the '90s, was on the effects of technophobia on society. Only a few magazines have investigated this phenomena of technophobia and technostress. One of them is CIO magazine. It devotes a whole section of its website to Human Behavior on the Web.
In fact, technophobia and technostress are prevalent enough in our society that a group of these people have come together to form a group called the Luddites. They are a group of people who are fighting back against technology. You can read more about them in a report by a student from the University of Texas or from these links:
www.york.ac.uk/~socs203/luddites.htm
www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html
www.luddites.com/purity.html
http://www.technostress.com/tscontents.htm
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis5937/baker.html