Attention Economy

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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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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New York Times • Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times

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The Ecology of Attention

Lia Purpura agnionline.bu.edu

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The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content

Li Jin and Katie Parrott every.to

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Curate the Internet, Comprehend the World: Introducing Startupy

Tom White whitenoise.email

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I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message

Ezra Klein nytimes.com

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Inhabiting the Negative Space (Sternberg Press / The Incidents)

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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

Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model

Jacob Cohen Donnelly amediaoperator.com

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The Bitter End of "Content"

Freddie deBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com

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