{"594326":{"#nid":"594326","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Meet Binky, The Social Media App Where Nothing Matters","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication,\u0026nbsp;was mentioned in an article in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENPR\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026ldquo;Meet Binky, The Social Media App Where Nothing Matters\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBinky is a social networking app without socializing, and yet,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/06\/the-app-that-does-nothing\/529764\/\u0022\u003EBinky may be \u0026quot;even more\u0026quot; satisfying\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;than real social media apps like Twitter or Instagram, writes Ian Bogost, a contributing editor at\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe says Binky may even cure the ills of smartphone compulsion: a way to use smartphones without doing anything at all. \u0026quot;Isn\u0026#39;t that all anyone really wants?\u0026quot; Bogost asks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOr maybe it\u0026#39;s yet another reminder of how entrenched we are in this digital world and, try as we might, we can\u0026#39;t escape.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2017\/06\/14\/532879727\/meet-binky-the-social-media-app-where-nothing-matters\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-08-11 16:39:41","changed_gmt":"2017-08-24 14:51:24","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 Diversity Champion awards","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2017\/06\/14\/532879727\/meet-binky-the-social-media-app-where-nothing-matters","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594940":{"id":"594940","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1503584868","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","changed":"1503584868","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226734","name":"Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66318,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg?itok=Ng8OKs2w"}}},"media_ids":["594940"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167543","name":"social media"},{"id":"10553","name":"app"}],"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":""}}}