An Investigation into the Pathologizing of Digital Play
Debates surrounding the legitimacy of the term ‘game addiction’ have been taking place ever since digital games achieved mass-market appeal in the early 1980s, often couched in the ‘conceptual chaos’ of trying to define and categorise behavioural addictions. The few anthropological treatments of this topic have been reasonably dismissive of the idea that excessive engagement…
Tom Colebrooke 