Digital Isolation: America and Its Addiction to Technology

Brian Palmer
Media Ethnography
Published in
2 min readJun 14, 2017

In America, technology has taken over our lives in so many ways. It has have become the most important part of our lives. While it gives us a greater opportunity to communicate, it also pushes us more towards isolation through a digital reality. Everyone must know what everyone else is doing at all times. We feel this need for validation through likes on Social Media, which can be either creativity stifling and/or draining. This is another case of failing to take things in moderation.

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