{"436031":{"#nid":"436031","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Don\u0027t Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, discussed the decline in popularity of making phone calls in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/08\/why-people-hate-making-phone-calls\/401114\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe says:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201fOne of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore. Not by choice, anyway. Phone calls\u2014you know, where you put the thing up to your ear and speak to someone in real time\u2014are becoming relics of a bygone era, the \u201cphone\u201d part of a smartphone turning vestigial as communication evolves, willingly or not, into data-oriented formats like text messaging and chat apps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/08\/why-people-hate-making-phone-calls\/401114\/\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIan Bogost is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of Interactive Computing. He also holds an appointment in the Scheller College of Business. Bogost is \u0026nbsp;a contributing editor at \u003C\/em\u003EThe Atlantic\u003Cem\u003E. He received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Following a career in software and videogame development, he joined the School of Literature, Media, and Communication in 2004.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2015-08-18 11:32:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/08\/why-people-hate-making-phone-calls\/401114\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1753","name":"phone"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"18261","name":"telephony"}],"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":""}}}