Placemaking / Smartphones / Social Media / Urban Design / Video Games
by T.Panova · Published September 7, 2021
Over these past few years, there has been a lot of talk about smartphone and social media addiction. People spend hours a day with their faces staring at screens, leading to concerns about what they are missing out on while doing so. The target of this concern is often young people, with adults who grew up without such technologies criticizing them for staring at their devices instead of engaging with the real world. However, what...
“Facebook is just a simplified version of video games.” For all those readers out there who are not very familiar with Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) video games like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy, I’m here to tell you that they’re just like our world, if our world was full of castle-laden mountain peaks, monsters lurking around every corner, glowing portals that hover in the air like fly traps, and enormous swords that characters...
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