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
There are those who believe the social web is reaching its terminal point. I hope they’re right. Platform after platform was designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content with one another so the corporations behind them could sell ever more of our attention and data. In different ways, most of these platforms are now in
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attention as an outgrowth of interest and, crucially, of choice.
Megan Garber • The Great Fracturing of American Attention
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top highlight: the role of the artist and designer that’s most important to me right now is indeed one as an orchestrator of attention