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How 'media snacks' – from HQ Trivia to Candy Crush – are transforming the workplace

  • Written by Ethan Tussey, Associate Professor in the School of Film, Media & Theatre, Georgia State University
A quick distraction is at our fingertips – and app developers know it. JrCasas/Shutterstock.com

When Snow White sang “Whistle While You Work,” she was participating in a long tradition of using entertainment to manage the stresses of labor.

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