Gaming (Ad)diction: Discourse, identity, time and play in the production of the gamer addiction myth

Game Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

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^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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