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The technics of attention
Attention, as a capacity, is always and already situated in a socio-technical milieu, within which it is invited, cajoled, conditioned and broken. This has not least been brought into sharp relief in the contemporary milieu by global communications networks, and … Continue reading
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Performance and the performativity of attention
As an embodied capacity, both cognitive and affective, attention is inherently performative, it takes place in the performance of everyday life. Instances of attention have particular durations and carry varying forms of significance. A number of papers, presentations and interventions … Continue reading
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Governance and the codification of attention
The corollary to the economic framework of addressing attention as a commodity is the ensuing political economic logic for codifying and governing the means of illiciting and controlling attention. A number of papers addressed emerging forms of governance for an … Continue reading
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The ‘globality’ of an attention economy and ‘uneven distribution’
If the attention economy is a system for valuing and trading in attention as a form of commodity then issues around distribution and its geographically variable nature are important considerations. Throughout the conference there were presentations which addressed both the … Continue reading
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Ethics, Surveillance and Trust
The attention economy provokes significant questions about the ways in which consumers/users can understand information about them, how it used, commodified and valued, where it is kept, who has access to it, and why the others within those relations can/cannot … Continue reading
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The biological capacity for attention, and its (re)configuration
Tiziana Terranova expertly laid out in her keynote paper the means by which the attention economy, and its Homo Economicus – the ‘subject of interest’ that is always assessing and calculating the worth and value of information -finds a corollary … Continue reading
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Attention as a commodity and the problem of exchange value
Following late 20th century work by Georg Franck and Michael Goldhaber, we can understand attention as a key tenet to the discourse that encompasses ‘the new economy’ or ‘digital economy’ of new media. If an economy is the way in … Continue reading
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Preliminary Attentive Outcomes
What comes from Paying Attention? Those who attended the conference might answer: ‘Plenty!’ The three days of the recent conference in Linkoping saw a wide range of ways of addressing the problematic of ‘attention’ given the many activities, media and … Continue reading
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