{"399571":{"#nid":"399571","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The After-Work Email Quandary","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost (LMC) was quoted in The Atlantic on the ritualistic qualities of reading, sorting, and pruning emails even while out of the office. Bogost suggests that email sorting is simply a default activity when there\u0027s nothing much else to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Email pruning doesn\u2019t enact work so much as it simulates work: It\u2019s a ritual\u2014like a secular, corporate rosary\u2014which we perform in the hopes that it will somehow help us leave the domain of ineffectual work and re-enter the domain of gratifying productivity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/04\/the-after-work-email-quandary\/391313\/\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIan Bogost is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; holds a joint appointment in\u0026nbsp; the Shool of Interactive Computing; and also holds an appointment in the Scheller College of Business.\u0026nbsp;Bogost is also a contributing editor at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe Atlantic\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-04-27 12:13:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:29","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/04\/the-after-work-email-quandary\/391313\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=1Az_4YGj"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"124751","name":"Atlantic"},{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"8119","name":"email"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"},{"id":"104081","name":"press"},{"id":"1800","name":"work"}],"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":""}}}