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Some young people at the Bethlem Adolescent Unit describe their weekly two-hours of internet time as time to 鈥渃ry and [socially] die鈥�, where scrolling through curated presentations of other people鈥檚 鈥榩erfect lives鈥� on Instagram, leaves them feeling low, isolated and excluded. Psychologist Naz Wagle at the hospital, describes the quandary being faced: 鈥渁t a time of massive losses and fracturing in life, could there be some advantage in maintaining these new forms of connection; might engagement with social media act as a pressure release, a way to seek validation, or to sublimate difficult stuff into another way of expressing, what we have for millennia through a myriad of art forms, whether that鈥檚 a 280 character tweet or a picture on Instagram?鈥�. The exhibition theme has been developed with young people and staff at the Bethlem Adolescent Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital.
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Some young people at the Bethlem Adolescent Unit describe their weekly two-hours of internet time as time to 鈥渃ry and [socially] die鈥�, where scrolling through curated presentations of other people鈥檚 鈥榩erfect lives鈥� on Instagram, leaves them feeling low, isolated and excluded. Psychologist Naz Wagle at the hospital, describes the quandary being faced: 鈥渁t a time of massive losses and fracturing in life, could there be some advantage in maintaining these new forms of connection; might engagement with social media act as a pressure release, a way to seek validation, or to sublimate difficult stuff into another way of expressing, what we have for millennia through a myriad of art forms, whether that鈥檚 a 280 character tweet or a picture on Instagram?鈥�. The exhibition theme has been developed with young people and staff at the Bethlem Adolescent Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital.
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