Meet Sofia: a 67-year-old widow who uses Pokémon Go to reconnect with her city
- Written by Larissa Hjorth, Professor of Mobile Media and Games, RMIT University
Social workers recommend Pokémon Go in Spain to enhance exercise and social inclusion.Shutterstock
Over the first weeks of July 2016, a strange phenomenon started to unfold in many parts of the world. A mobile game went viral. Streets in Barcelona, Melbourne, Singapore and New York began to fill with hordes digital wayfaring as part of the...
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