THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF CONNECTEDNESS: LIVING IN A NEW VIRTUAL WORLD.
Social media facilitate and intensify communication to an unprecedented degree and humanity is adjusting to this new state of affairs. Internet connectivity enables the human desire for sociality, personal relationships, and social acceptance to a remarkable degree. But human communication evolved i...
| Published in: | Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol. 33; no. 1/2; pp. 19 - 43 |
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Institute for Interdisciplinary Research
2021
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