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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).

Publication Date

8-12-2015

Keywords

Theatre; Theatre UCF; Audience distractions; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Screen addiction

Introduction

There’s been a lot of talk about patron use of technology in theaters, the most recent story of course being Patti LuPone’s snatching a phone out of a texting audience member’s hands in the middle of a scene during Shows for Days at the Lincoln Center Theater.

Subjects

Theaters; Social media; Smartphones; Life; Experience; Recreation; University of Central Florida;

Collection

UCF Forum

Publisher

University of Central Florida

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