Physical Health Effects
Staying up all night playing video games, and getting a limited amount of sleep
What is Sleep Depravation?
A severe lack of face-to-face interaction, leading to lackluster social skills. This is caused by lack of face to face interaction, leading to lackluster social skills.
What is Social Anxiety?
When one person calls the SWAT team on another person, most commonly Twitch Streamers
What is Swatting?
One of the first examples of the dark side of gaming.
What is Ring-Around-The-Rosie?
Minor injuries caused by repetition of the same action. Examples: Gamers Thumb, Trigger Finger, Tennis Elbow, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
What are Repetitive Stress Injury (RPIs)?
If a person experiences hyperarousal while playing video games, the brain associates the activity with this chemical.
Dopamine
The act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet
What is Doxxing?
Students are challenged when having to pay attention in work or school and don't associate screen time with schoolwork.
What is the gaming's negative effect on Academic performance?
Players often start becoming “toxic,” or harshly mean to one another, which translates into their everyday lives
What is Aggression?
A persons trouble determining current emotional state.
Alexithymic
A loosely-organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture.
What was Gamergate?
Age recommendations ranging from Early Childhood (EC) to Mature (M).
What are game ratings?
Example of an RPI.
What is Gamers Thumb, Trigger Finger, Tennis Elbow, or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Steady supply of dopamine to the brain.
A gamer is a player who has a bad attitude in an online gaming context.
What is a Toxic Player?
The positive feeling of overcoming a challenge.
What is the Triumph Circuit?