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Category Archives: reflection
Revisiting Stiegler’s understanding of Technicity and Attention
We haven’t blogged here for a while but the Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) continues to work on the theme of the attention economy. We have a themed journal issue derived from Paying Attention under development and Patrick Crogan has been convening … 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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Governmentalising Attention?
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
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
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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