Online gambling internet study underway

An internet study on online gambling by Southern Cross University’s Centre for Gambling Education and Research is now under way as the next stage in earlier research that found 13 percent of gamblers play social casino games (see previous report).

“There are quite a large proportion of Australians that do have gambling problems and it’s important that we think about what do these games have an impact on?” researcher Dr Sally Gainsbury said.

The larger online study aims to better understand how social media, social casino games and gambling intersect.