Author: Ethan Tussey File Type: epub How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection In moments of downtime waiting for a friend to arrive or commuting to work we pull out our phones for a few minutes of distraction. Just as television reoriented the way we think about living rooms, mobile devices have taken over the interstitial spaces of our everyday lives. Ethan Tussey argues that these in-between moments have created a procrastination economy, an opportunity for entertainment companies to create products, apps, platforms, subscription services, micropayments, and interactive opportunities that can colonize our everyday lives. But as businesses commoditize our free time, and mobile devices become essential tools for promotion, branding and distribution, consumers are using these devices as a means of navigating public and private space. These devices are not just changing the way we spend and value our time, but also how we interact with others and transform our sense the politics of space. By examining the four main locations of the procrastination economythe workplace, the commute, the waiting room, and the connected living roomEthan Tussey illuminates the relationship between the entertainment industry and the digitally empowered public. **Review Wasting time has become big business, as brands extend across cyberspace and into seemingly every area of our lives....offers a useful analysis of how Twitter and TV have become so intertwined and how mobile devices have changed and expanded the living room experience.-Kirkus Reviews Ethan Tussey offers an exciting and foundational concept-the procrastination economy-that is sure to have a long life and change the way we think about entertainment and mobile technology. Insightful and original, incorporating both industry insight and audience use, this book takes a smart approach to a new media phenomenon.-Amanda D. Lotz,author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized [An] engrossing study. Tusseys book is likely to strike a chord...with the many readers who see their smartphones and other mobile devices as a help, rather than hindrance, to their lives. He has crafted a thoughtful...approach to a pervasive aspect of modern life.-Publishers Weekly A lucid and innovative rethinking of the cultural politics of mobile media. Building on astute, site-specific fieldwork, Tussey picks apart moral panics and tired corporate paradigms alike. The book shows instead how complex adaptive behaviors now constitute industry-user interactions within the in-between times, non-spaces, and strategic mobile day-parts of digital and social media. This book forces scholars and developers alike to question the sacred cows of media specificity and new technology exceptionalism.-John T. Caldwell,author of Production Culture Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television About the Author Ethan Tussey is Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. He is the Coordinating Editor of In Media Res, and co-founder of the Atlanta Media Project.

Author: Amanda Bailey File Type: pdf The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies,this volumedemonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical and theoretical perspectives, the essays in this volume bring affect to bear on early modern representations of bodies, passions, and social relations by exploring the role of embodiment in political subjectivity and action the interactions of human and non-human bodies within ecological systems and the social and physiological dynamics of theatrical experience. Examining the complexly embodied experiences of leisure, sympathy, staged violence, courtiership, envy, suicide, and many other topics, the contributors open up new ways of understanding how Renaissance writers thought about the capacities, pleasures, and vulnerabilities of the human body.