"Co-temporal Presence":The Spatio-temporal Characterization and the Intimacy of Gaming Hotels
Gaming hotels,i.e.,"gaming+hotels",with the technological update of the millennial generation,gaming hotels,as an upgraded choice of internet cafes,have rapidly proliferated under the stimulation of the epidemic,and have become a new dating choice for couples of college students of the Z generation."Gaming+hotel"has the spatial and temporal characteristics of privacy,cyberization,and anti-temporal order.In them,college couples not only recognize the law of interaction of"co-presence"in the virtual world,but also integrate the virtual space with the offline space,creating an interactive state of"co-presence".The emergence of a new type of social space represented by"gaming hotels"provides a new type of basis for social interaction for young people who are the aborigines of digital society in the era of individualization.It allows them to realize multiple attachments of body and emotion in the real private but virtual vastness of space and time.In this uncertain era,it gives some comfort,release,and maneuvering to the youth groups in the midst of transformation and agitation,thus also exploring a future-oriented intimate relationship and ideal love script of the times.