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attention.economy

Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems. According to Matthew Crawford, "Attention is a 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

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