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
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We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and... See more
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
