Her name is Joanne Cantor and she is a â??recovering cyber-addict.â?
â??I love my work and Iâ??m a pretty industrious person when working on a project,â? says Cantor, the director of UW-Madisonâ??s Center for Communication Research and an expert on the psychological impact of media and communications. â??But my life was getting so cluttered with all this information that I was never getting anything done. If e-mail came in I felt a need to read it right away. Or Iâ??d go to look up one thing on the Internet, and Iâ??m so curious Iâ??d get distracted and spend time reading all these interesting articles. I figured if I was experiencing some of these problems, others were, too.â?