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Games For Health: Neils Clark On Moving Beyond 'Game Addiction'

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2008-05-12 16:00:14 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...addiction, for starters Following his latest Gamasutra feature on the subject, writer and researcher Neils Clark spoke at the ongoing Games for Health conference in Baltimore on game addiction In his talk at the conference, he covered the perceived problems, a run-down on why people might get addicted, and some proactive measures that...
 
Tags: game, world, virtual world whyville, real world relationship, game addiction, in-game worlds, worlds, friendships, in-game friendships
 
 
 
 
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MITs Henry Jenkins: Why the Chinese Fear Game Addiction More than Game Violence

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2008-02-04 12:52:01 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...addiction are fueling the debate. At least, thats how MIT professor Henry Jenkins sees it. Writing for his Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog, Jenkins details a recent trip to China, where he attendedthe International Games and Learning Forum I was struck by how little of the conversation about the negative social impact of games centered around...
 
Tags: addiction, game addiction, games, games violence, internet, internet addiction, chinese, addiction rhetoric, rhetoric
 
 
 
 
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WoW Addiction More Shameful Than Porn

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2008-06-09 20:23:14 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...addiction than an addiction to porn. Dr. Block specializes in treating Internet addicts and has recently published an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry urging his fellows to make Internet Addiction a new diagnostic term although he prefers the term pathological computer use BLOCK: Some people come in for trouble with Internet...
 
Tags: addiction, porn, warcraft, warcraft addiction stories, internet addiction, video game addiction, internet porn, jerald block, block
 
 
 
 
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Addiction to Online Games - And How to Cure It

2007-12-19 04:51:00 by k5115000 in Games Articles
 
...addiction, they represent only the tip of the iceberg. What goes unnoticed are the thousands of stories of players who get involved in an online game to the point that they seriously neglect or even abandon school, work, friends and families. There are no statistics on the depressions that result from extensive immersion in virtual worlds....
 
Tags: online, online games, dragons online, addiction, games, game, game worlds, strategyfreaks, game companies
 
 
 
 
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UK Dust-up Over Tanya Byron TV Program on Video Game Addiction

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2008-04-17 13:11:03 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...addiction. Byron made comments that appeared to liken video game addiction to dependence on street drugs It might seem ludicrous to compare a childish computer fantasy game with hard drug addiction. But addiction counsellors offering treatment to gamers argue that there are key similarities in the way that the consumer gets hooked into coming...
 
Tags: byron, video game addiction, game addiction, tanya byron, byron review, program, review, program leads spong, spong
 
 
 
 
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Gaming may be social problem, not an addiction

2008-11-25 17:00:00 by Colin Brennan in Massively
 
...addiction" in Europe, has now said that he believes gaming may not be an addiction after all.Keith Bakker, the founder of the clinic, is now saying that compulsive gaming behavior may be a social behavior rather than a psychological addiction. Through treating so many of the gamers that have walked through the clinic's doors, Bakker has...
 
Tags: addiction, social, psychological addiction, behavior, social behavior, bakker, clinic, keith bakker, jones centre
 
 
 
 
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TV psychologist Tanya Byron links games to heroin addiction

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2008-04-16 02:46:27 by Jay P. in Xbox 360
...addiction. In her show, Byron delved deeper to the world of gaming by talking about several situations gamers are in She went as far as to compare playing video games to cocaine or even heroin addiction. One of her interviewees was Michelle Hart, a 39-year-old World of Warcraft addict. Hart said she's been playing the MMORPG for two years...
 
Tags: addiction, tanya byron, byron, heroin addiction, hard drug addiction, addiction counselors, video game, video game violence, michelle hart
 
 
 
 
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TV psychologist Tanya Byron links games to heroin addiction

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2008-04-16 02:46:27 by Jay P. in PSP Updates
...addiction. In her show, Byron delved deeper to the world of gaming by talking about several situations gamers are in She went as far as to compare playing video games to cocaine or even heroin addiction. One of her interviewees was Michelle Hart, a 39-year-old World of Warcraft addict. Hart said she's been playing the MMORPG for two years...
 
Tags: addiction, tanya byron, byron, heroin addiction, hard drug addiction, addiction counselors, video game, video game violence, michelle hart
 
 
 
 
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TV psychologist Tanya Byron links games to heroin addiction

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2008-04-16 02:46:27 by Jay P. in World of Warcraft
...addiction. In her show, Byron delved deeper to the world of gaming by talking about several situations gamers are in She went as far as to compare playing video games to cocaine or even heroin addiction. One of her interviewees was Michelle Hart, a 39-year-old World of Warcraft addict. Hart said she's been playing the MMORPG for two years...
 
Tags: addiction, tanya byron, byron, heroin addiction, hard drug addiction, addiction counselors, video game, video game violence, michelle hart