[Air-l] Video Game Addiction

[muraco]

hmmm.... I am absolutely fascinated by your definition of "addiction" as
having to include only physiological criteria...
particularly since the a whole slew of illegal "drugs" are considered
"addictive" and this is now purely based on psychological addiction.
Marijuana for example.... and most psychedelics...
and I do not have a copy of DSM-IV handy but I think that text would
disagree with you. Disagree with you completely.

Hmm, and I am also unaware of any study that actually looked for altered
brains in video-game addicts,
so you must know of such a study as you are claiming "no shred of evidence"
was found.
I should like to know about the study that actually looked at these game
users brains. Please cite the study.
And if you are not aware of such a study, I should like you to totally
rethink what you wrote.

Muraco Kyashna-Tocha
Anthropologist
P.O.Box 85325
Seattle, WA 98145

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhiannon Bury" <rbury at oise.utoronto.ca>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Video Game Addiction


>
> I think we should be suspicious of terms like "video addiction";
> addictions are primarily physiological, not psychological and there is not
> a shred of evidence that playing video games alters brain chemistry in any
> way. I would say that this story is part of the latest media "moral panic"
> to divert attention from deep rooted social and individual problems.
> Nobody takes his/her own life because of a video game. It's rather like
> suggesting the boys at Columbine killed their classmates, teachers and
> themselves because they watched The Matrix and listened to Marilyn Manson.
>
> Rhiannon
>
>
> Rhiannon Bury
> Assistant Professor
> Wilfrid Laurier University
> Waterloo, ON, N2L 3C5
> Canada
>
>
>
>
> air-l at aoir.org writes:
> >This week's "48 Hours" on CBS featured a story about
> >video game 'addiction', especially those playing
> >"EverQuest" by Sony.  One sad tale of a twentysomething
> >young man who killed himself after his favorite
> >character was destroyed.  His mother thinks suicide was
> >due to the game.
> >
> >What amazed me was that most of the people in the story
> >were not teenage boys, but men in their 20s and 30s.
> >
> >Any real research out there on this subject of on-line
> >gaming addiction?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Valdis Krebs
> >http://www.orgnet.com
> >
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