Category Archives: conference

Preliminary Attentive Outcomes

Posted on September 30, 2010 by

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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Governmentalising Attention?

Posted on September 30, 2010 by

The UK Cabinet Office in partnership with the Institute for Government have recently published a report called ‘Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy‘.  The report aims to take recent insights from ‘behavioural theory’ and neuroscience and operationalise them as a … Continue reading →

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Wider Attention: Blogging the conference

Posted on September 22, 2010 by

It seems an appropriate time, after two weeks, to reflect upon how the ‘Paying Attention’ conference has itself attracted attention. Several of the delegates have blogged about the conference, far and wide, and the fruitful discussion about the idea/problematic of … Continue reading →

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Paying Attention experiencing a warm afterglow

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

In the wake of the conference all the participants are hopefully having a good holiday or have found their way home safely. Back at the Digital Cultures Research Centre we are reviewing what we learnt, what we didn’t know, what … Continue reading →

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Thank you for paying attention

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

The Digital Cultures Research Centre team would like to thank all of our fantastic speakers and delegates for participating in a provocative but inspiring and stimulating conference.  We are particularly indebted to our keynote speakers: Michel Bauwens, Tiziana Terranova and … Continue reading →

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Session 11: Online Sociality and Technicity

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Our 11th session concerns various ways in which we can address online social relations and the technicities they reflect and refract.

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Session 10: Ethics and alternatives

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Our tenth session concerns issues of ethics and alternatives within and for the attention economy, as it has been theorised in this conference.

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Day 3 > Michel Bauwens

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Michel Bauwens is our final keynote speaker, a founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, who presents the first session of the third and final day on ‘The Role of Peer to Peer Values and Open Infrastructures in … Continue reading →

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Session 8: Aphra Kerr & Simon Poulter

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

In the final session of papers of day 2, sociologist Aphra Kerr explicates and critiques the various ways in which ‘trust’ is articulated in the design of communications technologies and artist and curator Simon Poulter presents a critical intervention themed … Continue reading →

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Scoping and Review conversation (2)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

The second scoping and review session continued with the encouragement of delegates to engage with the themes that have arisen during the second day of sessions of the conference.  Another exciting discussion arose with contributions from speakers and from other … Continue reading →

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