Media Addiction

1990 using over 30hours of media was considered disruptive. We spend that much a day with no negative effects & the clip shown seems to be completely staged with the boy laying over his computer games. Nowadays 4 hours on a computer game is the norm. It is almost being used as a moral panic by all the media attention.

Dr Julia Frank & reason for game addiction:

• pleasure from Brain - enjoy it and thus do it again
• rewarding - desire for reward
• reward takes over things - addiction
• winning - competitive