This hasn¡¯t been a great year for social media. Internet addiction has been a hot topic, as have privacy issues, and there has even been a movement to #DeleteFacebook.
Last month, Satoshi Miyagi, artistic director of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, which runs World Theatre Festival Shizuoka, joined that chorus of critics.
¡°Since SNS (social networking services) are often just used as a one-way monologue, I worry that our world needs to pay more attention to listening to other people¡¯s voices,¡± he said at a press conference to announce the lineup of his annual festival.
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