Social network sites (SNSs) like Facebook.com, are the dominant technology-mediated leisure activity among teenagers in different countries, prompting researchers to explore their suitability as learning tools, largely in formal higher education settings, and with mixed results.
One reason may be that while lower-income families now enjoy more leisure, technology has created new leisure activities that they may desire but cannot afford.
Justine Jordan wrote in the Guardian : "In this dazzling tale of progress in miniature, Yves Gundron, yeoman farmer of the remote village Mandragora, asks us to imagine the aeons of undifferentiated time before technology gave humankind leisure for desire, contemplation, travel and doubt".
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Kids are now exposed to so much great technology in their leisure time and yet so little innovation goes into teaching," Sharmi Albrechtsen, founder and CEO at SmartGurlz, says.
This collaborative process of creating shared fictional worlds may be associated with a broader burgeoning "geek" culture in developed societies that is in turn associated with prolonged education, high uptake of information technology and increased leisure time.
This rapid increase in economic growth and urbanization has lead to changes in occupation, transportation and technology directed at leisure time activities at home which have also contributed to increased sedentary behavior and reduced physical activity [ 39, 42, 43].
Helped along by satellite technology, thousands of leisure-time treasure hunters hope so.
In 1900, no one could foresee that a century later, health care, finance, information technology, consumer electronics, hospitality, leisure and entertainment would employ far more workers than agriculture.
