[Air-l] Video Game Addiction

[elijah wright]

dear muraco,

1) thanks so much for forwarding an off-list personal email to the list.
	:( bad muraco!

2) i'm afraid you still don't understand my last mail to the list.

3) no one but you seems to be making informational claims, and i see no
evidence of hostility.

4) a quick google search with the terms " +"video game addiction"
physiological change" returns multiple hits, with multiple perspectives.

5) textbook trolling - nicely done.

~elijah


On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, muraco wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:15:58 -0700
> From: muraco <one at muraco.org>
> To: air-l at aoir.org, elijah wright <elw at stderr.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Video Game Addiction
>
> interesting that asking for verification of
> "no shred of evidence exists for the brains being altered in game users"
> gets so much hostilty...
> I guess you have no study to cite, and that being said then I guess
> THERE IS NO SHRED OF EVIDENCE THAT GAME USERS BRAINS ARE NOT BEING MODIFIED BY THEIR GAME ADDICTION.
>
> and so I guess your original statement isn't so useful...
>
> I continue with the noting that your defintion of addiction is most flawed....
> that addiction can include only psychological dimensions,
> and therefore it would seem appropriate to note
> "the addiction of game users..."
>
> which is I believe where we started...
>
> sadly I was hoping for something a bit more concrete to debate about....
> otherwise why the post?
> Muraco
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "elijah wright" <elw at stderr.org>
> To: "muraco" <one at muraco.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Video Game Addiction
>
>
> >
> > thus far, no one but you has indicated that there needs to be a cited
> > study in order to establish that "no shred of evidence exists".
> >
> > you *could* go fire up google, instead of trolling the AIR list....
> >
> > elijah
> >
> > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, muraco wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 16:53:32 -0700
> > > From: muraco <one at muraco.org>
> > > Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> > > To: air-l at aoir.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Video Game Addiction
> > >
> > > coool then someone is going to cite the source???
> > > this study that looked at users brains???
> > >
> > > I am not hostile but I do think I want things cited, and not spouted off
> > > without much thinking...
> > >
> > > so this study???
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "elijah wright" <elw at stderr.org>
> > > To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:44 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Video Game Addiction
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > 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
> > > >
> > > > tsk, tsk.  hostile?
> > > >
> > > > "no shred of evidence" can be interpreted to mean "no evidence has been
> > > > presented" as easily as "there is evidence to the contrary"...  two rather
> > > > different options.
> > > >
> > > > which was actually meant is debatable, no? semantics :)
> > > >
> > > > elijah
> > > >
> > > >
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