utopiah@mastodon.pirateparty.be - Yes ... https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/1554074975862226946 and sadly my still so terribly current (yet raw) notes on Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death https://fabien.benetou.fr/ReadingNotes/AmusingOurselvesToDeath​ RT @noUpside@twitter.com Glad people are coming around to this pov. There is a structure to social networks/media, impossible to separate out fully from the substance (content, behavior) it incentivizes. A mutually-shaping system. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/opinion/media-message-twitter-instagram.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/opinion/media-message-twitter-instagram.html?referringSource=articleShare​ 🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/noUpside/status/1556684435113889792​ # attention.economy > **Attention economics** is an approach to the [management of information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_management "Information management") that treats human [attention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention "Attention") as a scarce [commodity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity "Commodity") and applies [economic theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_theory "Economic theory") to solve various information management problems. According to [Matthew Crawford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Crawford "Matthew Crawford"), "Attention is a [resource](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource "Resource")—a person has only so much of it. > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy >In a so-called attention economy, what better way to prove that you’ve paid attention to something than to remix it? Meet the folk music of the twenty-first century. > - [[people.JaceClayton]] - [[people.BruceSterling]] - https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/daniel-estrada-on-bruce-sterlings-the-caryatids-as-a-model-for-the-attention-economy/2013/10/04 - [[people.JaronLanier]] - https://www.quora.com/How-plausible-is-the-proposed-new-economy-that-Jaron-Lanier-proposes-in-his-book-Who-Owns-the-Future?share=1 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/07/05/really-could-the-internet-be-shrinking-the-economy-jaron-lanier-on-how-to-fix-it/ - [[people.AndyMatuschak]] note on Programmable attention - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zJrfPCbY7GcpV9asEc8NTVzXTAV4TvRFMuY6 ## Adjacent - [[concepts.playlisting]] - [[concepts.memory]] - [[incubation.mediamateriality]] - [[concepts.cryptoart]] - [[incubation.concepts.post-digital]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction ------------------- - Apathy as tool of [[incubation.attention.economy]] - Server nomadism and patchy junctions pluralistic@mamot.fr - This is the commercial pressure that turned the esoteric web into the generic web of sensationalism, clickbait and cute animals. It didn't just transform what writers wrote - it also transformed how writers and readers related to one another. 8/