The recent rise of new forms of media and the modern changes in the world have driven individuals to invest less time watching TV, listening to the radio and reading magazines and books (Gardner et al. 2009); lately, youthful demographics have progressively moved their hobbies to alternative types of entertainment. ... Based on the limited-capacity model of attention, Oakes and North (2006) argue that playing a low-speed game requires less energy since gamers are not completely immersed in gameplay and therefore would have the capacity to process advertising messages. ... In this study, produc...

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The story starts with the initial, utopic discovery of Ecstasy and its boundary-lowering qualities, and ends, with varying degrees of speed, with the descent into polydrug abuse and depression. ... At times, the scales tip; Reynolds' persistent reading of this most abstract music in terms of class and race politics is welcome, particularly his analysis of Detroit techno as a suburban phenomenon (which goes against the usual British fetishization of it as the authentic product of an oppressed black underclass), but also sometimes excessive (he goes on to dismiss certain Detroit producers b...

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