Dependent, Distracted, Bored
Affective Formations in Networked Media
$87.40
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2021
Summary
A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.
In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a decade: that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with detrimental effect on our capacities to focus, relate, remember, and be. Paasonen argues instead t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262045674 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262045672 |
| Author: | Susanna Paasonen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 496g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Susanna Paasonen
Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography and the co-author of NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media and Who’s Laughing Now: Feminist Tactics in Social Media, all published by the MIT Press.
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