Excessive Gaming

The Truth About ‘Video Game Addiction’ (2018)

World Health Organization: Addictive behaviours: Gaming disorder (2018)

China’s Web Junkies (2014)

South Korea Cracks Down on Gaming Addiction (2010)

Is ‘Gaming Disorder’ An Illness? WHO Says Yes, Adding It To Its List Of Diseases (2019)

American Psychiatric Association: Internet Gaming (2018)

How Video Game Addiction Can Destroy Your Life (2015)

Video games are dividing South Korea (2019)

Hooked On The Internet, South Korean Teens Go Into Digital Detox (2019)

In South Korea a Rehab Camp For Internet-Addicted Teenagers (2016)

Korea’s Silly “Shutdown Law” Might Be Unconstitutional (2012)

South Korea Eases Rules On Kids’ Late Night Gaming (2014)

S. Korea to ease online game ‘shutdown law’ (2016)

Internet Addiction Clinic Uses Electroshock to Cure Patients (2016)

Chinese Doctor “Cures” Internet Addiction with Electroshock Therapy – 3000 Teens Treated So Far (2009)

China bans electric shock treatment used to ‘cure’ young internet addicts (2009)

Inside the Chinese Boot Camps Designed to Break Video Game Addiction (2015)

A New ‘Cure’ for China’s Millions of Web Addicts: Hack Their Computer (2017)

The Dark, Deadly Side of China’s Internet Addiction Camps (2014)

The more they play, the more they lose (2007)

China to classify internet addiction as an official disorder (2008)

China Introduces Restrictions On Video Games For Minors (2019)

Ferguson, C. J., & Colwell, J. (2019, May 23). Lack of Consensus Among Scholars on the Issue of Video Game “Addiction”. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. Advance online publication.

Bean et al. (2017) “Video Game Addiction: The Push To Pathologize Video Games”, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 2017, Vol. 48, No. 5, 378–389

Kearns CE, Schmidt LA, Glantz SA. Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(11):1680–1685.

King, D.L., Delfabbro, P.H., Doh, Y.Y. et al. Policy and Prevention Approaches for Disordered and Hazardous Gaming and Internet Use: an International Perspective. Prev Sci 19, 233–249 (2018).

Király, Orsolya et al. “Policy responses to problematic video game use: A systematic review of current measures and future possibilities.” Journal of behavioral addictions vol. 7,3 (2018): 503-517.

A Korean Couple Let a Baby Die While They Played a Video Game (2014)

The Dangers of Video Game Addiction (2019)