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Nigel Turner 2024

Conducting collaborative research locally, nationally and globally.

Nigel Turner 2024

Brief Report: The Rise of Online Betting in Ontario
Nigel Turner, Lindsay Sinclair & Flora Matheson
In this paper we examine the nature of calls for the Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline from June 2021 to Jan 2023 to determine if the increased marketing of online and sports gambling has changed the nature of calls to the helpline…
https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3763
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Completing The Circle: The Convergence of Gambling and Gaming
Nigel Turner, Jing Shi
This paper examines an innovation by the game industry that makes it possible to earn credits for gift cards while playing video games. This turns video gaming into something like an indirect form of gambling. One spends money to win awards through gift cards. It is indirect because the player spends money on one or more game software…

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