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Digital Gaming: A New Way of Programming Happiness and Creativity in Youth

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Technology provides us many tools including digital games. In this chapter, digital games consist of computer games, video games, and Internet games. According to Prensky (2001), video games provide a platform for young people to unlock their talents in game design and game-related interfaces. Therefore, it is necessary and indispensable to understand the use of technology for recreation and leisure by the youth so that the policy makers can use the insight to improve National Youth Policy on youth recreation and leisure in India. As sociologists of leisure, we need to be aware that virtual leisure has the potential in positive sense. This empirical study will focus on understanding how the video games help in programming happiness and creativity in youth.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Government Meera Girls College, Udaipur, India

    Anju Beniwal

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  1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Shintaro Kono

  2. Government Meera Girls College, Rajasthan, India

    Anju Beniwal

  3. Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India

    Priyanka Baweja

  4. Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

    Karl Spracklen

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Beniwal, A. (2020). Digital Gaming: A New Way of Programming Happiness and Creativity in Youth. In: Kono, S., Beniwal, A., Baweja, P., Spracklen, K. (eds) Positive Sociology of Leisure. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41812-0_15

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