More recently, researchers Mark D. Griffiths (2000) and Dr. Jason C. Northrup and colleagues (2015) claim that Internet per se is simply the medium and that the people are in effect addicted to processes facilitated by the Internet.
研究人员如Mark D. Griffiths （2000）和Jason C. Northrup等（2015）进一步提出，网络本身只是一种媒介，而真正令人成瘾的是那些网络促成的进程（processes）。