Social responsibility in online videogaming: What should the videogame industry do?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 181-185

  Yousafzai, Shumaila ^a   Hussain, Zaheer ^b   Griffiths, Mark ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84900395368     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2013.812203     Document Type: Editorial

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