Losing the Religion that is Social Media

By Regina Hoo

May 2019 FEATURE
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Religious Elegance.
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City of Many Tales.It’s a tech-warped world we’re operating in today. The increasing number of social media platforms is rivalled only by the proliferation of psychological concerns. The human mind’s ready submission to the hypnotic effects of social media, our need for instant gratification and validation, and the widening chasm that now separates once meaningful relationships all form facets to this contemporary neurosis.Madhvee Deb.Interdisciplinary artist Madhvee Deb witnesses this, and in her photography exhibition Digital Waste: The Sweet Smell of...

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