Attention Economy
exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory
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Attention Economy
attention as an outgrowth of interest and, crucially, of choice.
Megan Garber • The Great Fracturing of American Attention
what is Social Media doing to us?
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
Jerod Morris and • 239 cards
Parnell shows that authors of color and queer authors are much more likely to have their work flagged as “adult content,” largely due to problems with Rekognition, the algorithm used to analyze the book covers uploaded by authors.
Laura B. McGrath • Do We Still Need Agents?
“Specificially, pursuit of novelty creates “luck”, and curiosity is the emotional manifestation of novelty. If we’re more open to what attracts our attention, we’ll get a lot luckier.”
Paul Millerdtwitter.comPeople in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own... See more