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#1049: “Diagnosia”: Environmental Storytelling of a Chinese Internet Addiction Camp


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Diagnosia is an immersive, non-linear environmental storytelling piece that takes you inside of a Chinese Internet Addiction Camp. In the early 2000s in China, there was a moral panic around video game use as state-run Chinese media started to declare label excessive technology use as 'electronic heroin' and 'spiritual opium.' Director Mengtai Zhang was bullied in school and was experiencing a stressful familial situation, which resulted in him retreating into video games, and was labeled a teenage 'Internet addict' and sent off to an Internet addiction camp run by Chinese military in Beijing in 2007
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