REDEF ORIGINAL: The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture
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REDEF ORIGINAL: The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture
To speak about attention as a resource is to grant and even encourage its commodification. If attention is scarce, then a competitive attention economy flows inevitably from it. In other words, to think of attention as a resource is already to invite the possibility that it may be extracted. Perhaps this seems like the natural way of thinking about... See more
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