Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media

by Susanna Paasonen

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045672
• ISBN13: 9780262045674
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"