• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, June 21, 2011

Chatfield is offering a contra view of the mobile revolution – that it's making us feel "oppressive," 'habit-forming" and even, "addictive."

Chatfield has provided a pretty good recap of the run-up of the mobile media revolution beginning with a picture of a heavyweight championship boxing bout at New York's Madison Square Garden, the first one in which an announcer utilized a telephone to relay the fight to radio broadcasters around the country, and the first time a "mediated" event had an audience larger than the one at the event itself.

Things get worse from there, Chatfield suggests, citing studies showing the amount of time young people spend with "leisure time" media. It keeps jumping because of media technologies' ability to let us multitask, time- and place-shift media consumption.

Chatfield seems to think this isn't a good thing, and he says the solution is that, "we need a different kind of time." One that allows us to turn things off and "not worry" about what we're missing.

"It means learning how to say, 'no,' as well as, 'yes," he said.