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A Research Proposal: Policy Issues Of Video Game Addiction, Santosh Shivappa Kottalgi Aug 2019

A Research Proposal: Policy Issues Of Video Game Addiction, Santosh Shivappa Kottalgi

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The advances in computational power and high-speed internet are making digital games more interactive and entertaining as a popular leisure activity, leading to the rapid growth of the gaming industry globally. Game players are spending an increasing amount of time, money and energy to the extent that in many cases it is leading to game addiction (Griffith, 2002). Few games can be used for educational (Freitas & Griffiths, 2007) and medical treatment purpose to accelerate the cognitive learning of human being (Gentile et al.,2009), however, such needs are few. Due to pressure from families, doctors, educational institutions and even law …