{"134381":{"#nid":"134381","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Cigarette of This Century","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRuined or not, Blackberry has left us with the most distinctive social tic since cigarettes. And cigarettes may be deadly and disgusting, but they\u0027re cool and chic too,\u201d writes \u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Communications, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, in the column article comparing Blackberry to cigarette for the role of social tic in human society. \u201cLive or die this quarter, such will be the meaning of Blackberry in the long-term: the sensuous richness of the idea of new information at any moment, and the frothing, blooming world that spins unseen while we fondle our devices in search of something else.\u201d\u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/06\/the-cigarette-of-this-century\/258092\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic Home \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E-\u0026nbsp;June 6, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2012-06-07 13:33:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:43","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Aheli Ghosh","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/06\/the-cigarette-of-this-century\/258092\/","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"35461","name":"blackberry"},{"id":"35451","name":"cigarette"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}