One way to fear smartphones

November 09, 2012

A new study finds a correlation between smartphone ownership and higher rates of sexual encounters.

So watch this as another way for people to acculturate techno-fear. Technology as enabler of (sometimes illicit) sexuality is a classic form of media panic.

November 09, 2012 at 09:25 in Haunted Spaces: Cyberspace Gothic | Permalink

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November 09, 2012