Talk:Digital Media & Culture: Collaborative Essay Collection 2018/Always-on Culture/Research Question 1:/VCSI

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 * GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 09:51, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

So far we have been discussing our research topic ideas. We originally thought of looking at how the Always-On culture affects mental health and well-being, but this is too broad and requires extensive knowledge and background research of psychology and neurology, etc. We also talked as a group about how the older generations are now falling into the Always-On lifestyle, while people our age are starting to back away from Always-On (i.e. deleting social media accounts). We could revisit this topic or come up with something completely different.
 * Summer.schnellbach (discuss • contribs) 11:06, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

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Hey team VCSI!

The idea of the mental effects on Always on culture is really interesting! Our generation seems like the ones who are never off the phone but when it comes to posting about every detail of your life I feel like the older generation is definitely more guilty. An interesting take on it would be gaming culture, and how many gamers feel the need to be online all the time to keep up their score and rewards.

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Good luck with everything and if you feel like heading over to my groups page, please try and leave a comment. We are team tarintrio!