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When humans used to communicate through postal mail, telephones, and facsimile, the sense of touch, smell, taste, and feelings were sacrificed as a result of distance. They were only palpable by keeping hard record copies of them and generations to come had access to these records. Migration is as old as the earth itself, but never in human history has the sense of togetherness been so alien as we now have in the age of digital communication. Humans are now sharing digital spaces on the Internet and texting or blogging to one another and that has caused a strain in the in-person world as well as the virtual world as a result of multiple spaces and identities. To resist these new forms of communication is tantamount to rejecting a cold bottle of water on a hot summer afternoon.
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Langmia, K. (2016). Cybernetic Psycho-Syndrome. In: Globalization and Cyberculture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4_9
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