TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION WITH RELIGIOUS AND MORAL DIMENSIONS

Although technology appears to facilitate modern man’s life in the information age, it actually has some negative effects at individual and social level. One of these effects is the technology addiction that is obviously apparent in almost all age groups. Mentioning technology and addiction together did not mean anything a thousand years ago. In our opinion, however, the religion that produces solutions in all ages may also contribute to this widespread problem in terms of humans’ creation codes and relations with their environment. This study combines theory and practice in the fields of morality, education, and religion, and examines the effects of technology addiction on the relationships of humans with themselves, their environment, and with Allah. Each of these dimensions was analysed as up-to-date, practically and briefly in light of the verses from the Qur’an and the hadith narrations. This study also briefly deals with “values-awareness” as mental dimension, “need for freedom” as existential dimension, “waste” as socioeconomic dimension, “body health” as medical dimension, “issue of worship” as religious dimension, and “boundaries of legality” as legal dimension. These fields require further detailed studies when it comes to the matter of technology addiction. Positive results related to the healthy use of means and platforms of communication such as televisions, computers, mobile phones, social media and other products of technology can be obtained if the accumulation if the accumulation of theological knowledge in general and the model of morality in the hadith and the Sunnah in particular are placed in the center. This will, however, not be succeeded independently without the support and cooperation of social branches, particularly psychology. Moreover, technology addiction should be evaluated together with other types of addiction, and both its religious and moral effects and solution recommendations based on religious references should be considered together as well