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The scoping and review session encouraged delegates to engage with the themes that have arisen during the first three sessions of the conference.  A vibrant and diverse discussion arose with contributions from speakers and from other participants, raising some interesting … Continue reading →

Anne and the inspirational biscuits

The third session collects together a number of empirical and critical engagements with social media as systems for community constitution and mediation.

Session 2 collects together some theorisations of the attention economy, engaging with a number of social theoretical approaches.

Some notes from Tiziana Terranova’s keynote: Attention has started to figure prominently in debates around the ‘digital’ economy and it is clear from the various essays being published around various inter-related discourses that ‘attention’ has become a key theme.  There … Continue reading →

The key themes of the conference derive from technocultures and the originary technics with which they are co-constitutive, by which we mean the ways in which being human is inherently tied to being technical. This is tied to ‘paying attention’ … Continue reading →

The Paying Attention conference commences today with glorious sunshine in Linkoping and a full room of delegates. Our first keynote speaker is Tiziana Terranova, who is speaking about the Bios of Attention. Sam Kinsley will be updating this blog with … Continue reading →