The Procrastination Economy

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

[An] engrossing study. Tussey's 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

This insightful and timely book focuses on how earlier mobile devices paved the way for the era of smartphones and ubiquitous computing. By studying four quotidian environments—the workplace, the commute, the waiting room, and the ‘connected’ living room—Tussey’s first book contributes to a growing literature on waiting and temporality as social and political constructs. ~Media Industries Journal

Mobile devices and social media apps are only the most overt elements. In his overview of the system, Tussey focuses on the network of content providers, subscription services, consumer-behavior monitors and data-mining algorithms that operate, so to speak, in the hidden depths of our screens. ~Inside Higher Ed

This book is a nice contribution to the growing body of work on new media spectatorship. ~Television & New Media

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

Ethan Tussey offers an exciting and foundational conceptthe '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