I´m not an addicted nerd! Or am I?: A narrative study on self-perceiving addiction of MMORPG`s players
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | Addiction to online games is one of the most discussed aspects of cyberpsychology. This presentation aims at re-constructing understandings which create online gamers by labeling themselves as game addicted. Based on narrative psychology approach 10 interviews have been conducted and analysed. The participants were experienced adolescent gamers with an age from 13 to 22 years. For all of them were addiction one of the most importatnt game aspects which even constructs the identity of players. As another result, there have been identified different meanings for self-perceiving addiction between younger and older participants. Younger ones tend to feel more possitively emotionaly engaged, they feel addicted but they deprecated negativ impact of it. Older gamers only feel themselves as threatened by potential addiction but not as addicted. They disociated addictin into other persons espacially their game-friends but simultaneously take the impact of addiction too seriously. |
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