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| | Can Media Overuse Stifle Emotional Maturity? |
 | | Wednesday, May 18, 2005; 1:30 PM Author Michael Bugeja was online to discuss his new book, "Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age," an interdisciplinary analysis of the void that develops between people when they spend too much time in virtual rather than real communities. |
 | | Michael Bugeja: It's a curious type of addiction, a choice, really, about which world one wants to live in: the real one, with rainbows of texture--sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touch and motion [a kind of sixth sense]--or a predictable, digital world with simulations of all that. |
 | | Michael Bugeja: I'm not an expert on what young women may or may not do in their relationships with others, based on popular TV shows. |
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