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Dependent, Distracted, Bored : Affective Formations in Networked Media by Susanna Paasonen [Susanna Paasonen] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dependent, Distracted, Bored : Affective Formations in Networked Media about?

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 that network connectivity is a matter of infrastructure and necessary for the operations of the everyday. Dependencies on it do not equal addiction but speak to the networks within which our agency can take shape.

Who reads Dependent, Distracted, Bored : Affective Formations in Networked Media?

Author

Susanna Paasonen [Susanna Paasonen]

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262045674

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Technology, Science