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  #1 anonymous on 08 Nov 11

   

  see http://www.vcu.edu/sitar/sitarnewsletterOct08.pdf
  
  in page 2, it's said that the research found children play computer game to "compete and win" and to "have fun"; being addicted to computer game, can be being addicted to compete and win or to have fun; maybe they can't win elsewhere, or unable or no opportunity to compete else where, thus drag deeper into the computer game, and thus become addiction since they just want to pursue that nothing else and start neglecting other things.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">see <a href="http://www.vcu.edu/sitar/sitarnewsletterOct08.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.vcu.edu/sitar/sitarnewsletterOct08.pdf</a> <br /> <br /> in page 2, it's said that the research found children play computer game to "compete and win" and to "have fun"; being addicted to computer game, can be being addicted to compete and win or to have fun; maybe they can't win elsewhere, or unable or no opportunity to compete else where, thus drag deeper into the computer game, and thus become addiction since they just want to pursue that nothing else and start neglecting other things.</div>

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  #2 anonymous on 08 Nov 11

   

  see http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Research_Papers_files/Olson_Motivations%20for%20Play_final.pdf
  
  I think this article is interesting, sadly i can't or not know yet how to annotate on the pdf online, but the paper talks about why a child play computer game. thus any addiction would simply that the child pursue those motives in such manner that overpower other motivators to do something else that is to the norm for that child. thus, what we then observed as addiction.
  
  i personally can share that i know a friend whose child is addicted to driving, he just so eager to drive, and not doing homework or doing everything else, he excited when talks about his upcoming driving test but everything else are either second or third in his mind. we won't call such behavior addiction for a taxi driver, but it's not what we expected of that age of child, and he neglected other things. so the key to 'addiction' maybe not in the computer game it self, but in the life of that child that has allowed that child to be addicted to a computer game. while the computer game simply afford that child to have something that is pleasurable to him. if everything else absent, then he will pursue that until the end. since pleasure-seeking is the nature of man's flesh.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">see <a href="http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Research_Papers_files/Olson_Motivations%20for%20Play_final.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Research_Papers_files/Olson_Motivations%20for%20Play_final.pdf</a> <br /> <br /> I think this article is interesting, sadly i can't or not know yet how to annotate on the pdf online, but the paper talks about why a child play computer game. thus any addiction would simply that the child pursue those motives in such manner that overpower other motivators to do something else that is to the norm for that child. thus, what we then observed as addiction. <br /> <br /> i personally can share that i know a friend whose child is addicted to driving, he just so eager to drive, and not doing homework or doing everything else, he excited when talks about his upcoming driving test but everything else are either second or third in his mind. we won't call such behavior addiction for a taxi driver, but it's not what we expected of that age of child, and he neglected other things. so the key to 'addiction' maybe not in the computer game it self, but in the life of that child that has allowed that child to be addicted to a computer game. while the computer game simply afford that child to have something that is pleasurable to him. if everything else absent, then he will pursue that until the end. since pleasure-seeking is the nature of man's flesh.</div>

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