The Politics of Video Games, with Pete Etchells and Ros Urwin

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🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Are video games harmful to society? Recently the World Health Organisation classified 'gaming disorder' as a clinical mental health disorder and a danger to public health. But how real is the threat of video game addiction, and what about the potential benefits that gaming can bring to all of us? In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Pete Etchells, researcher into the psychological effects of video games and author of Lost In A Good Game: Why We Play Video Games and What They Can Do For Us. He was interviewed by Ros Urwin of The Sunday Times. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.1	Hello and welcome to this week's Intelligence Squared podcast with me Farra Jossat
1:01.0	and me Daniel Ben Korn. Do you play video games?
1:04.0	Have you ever wondered how it affects your life?
1:06.0	We interviewed the psychologist Pete Edchles
1:08.0	about the impact of video games on society.
1:11.0	Daniel, what was the conversation about?
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1:14.4	Lost in a Good game and it's an exploration of his own relationship with video
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