Phone and gaming firms 'control our behaviour'

The mobile phone and gaming industries are increasingly governing our behaviour by creating addictive products that shape and control how we communicate and interact, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Phone and gaming firms 'control our behaviour'

The mobile phone and gaming industries are increasingly governing our behaviour by creating addictive products that shape and control how we communicate and interact, writes Catherine Shanahan.

The use of ‘behaviourist techniques’ to control the general populace, once feared as a potential tool of governments, are in fact used by technology companies, with games and apps designed to get us hooked.

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