134381 external_news 1339075980 1475893543 “Ruined or not, Blackberry has left us with the most distinctive social tic since cigarettes. And cigarettes may be deadly and disgusting, but they're cool and chic too,” writes Ian Bogost, 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. “Live 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.”  Source: The Atlantic Home - June 6, 2012

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