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Online Social Sites As Virtual Parks: An Investigation Into Leisure Online And Offline, Payal Arora
Online Social Sites As Virtual Parks: An Investigation Into Leisure Online And Offline, Payal Arora
Payal Arora
Currently, there is much excitement about Web 2.0 as a novel platform for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. Conversely, there are skeptics who sound the alarm on these spaces, viewing them as diluting of human relations. The perspective that guides this article is invested in neither a utopian nor a dystopian posture, but sees historical continuity, pointing out that performing leisure is a basic human impulse that has found expression over the centuries. With regard to the online sites used for leisure, it makes the case that the history of the development of the public …