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Potential 'dark sides' of leisure technology use in youth

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Time for balanced reflections on technology.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 3
      March 2019
      109 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3314328
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