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attention.economy
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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.
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.
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people.AndyMatuschak note on Programmable attention
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.
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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
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In the camps in north-west Syria, the BBC found that the trend was being facilitated by so-called "TikTok middlemen", who provided families with the phones and equipment to go live.