Attention Economy
A Medium article by me
Are you content with where and to whom you’ve given your attention?
Our attention is the most valuable resource we have. It is finite, and once it is spent there is no way to get it back. It can’t be stored or accrue interest over time.
Center for Humane Technology Podcast: Your Undivided Attention
When Attention Went on Sale.
An information system that relies on advertising was not born with the Internet. But social media platforms have taken it to an entirely new level, becoming a major force in how we make sense of ourselves and the world around us.
Neurohacker Collective Podcast + Video: Daniel Schmachtenberger + Tristan Harris
How Social Media & AI Hijack Minds.
The human brain is no match for the flashing, pinging, and beckoning applications that compete with one another for our attention and gobble up an astounding percentage of the conscious energy of the world.
By: Tim Wu
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time.
Attention Wars.
In this six-episode series, YouTube channel, BrainCraft explores the psychology, design, and impact of tech and social media.
ARTICLES TO READ
Paying Attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy
By: Patrick Crogan and Samuel Kinsley
How are the ways we understand subjective experience not least cognitively being modulated by political-economic rationales? And how might artists, social scientists, and radical philosophers learn to respond to the commodification of human capacities of attention?
How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind
By: Tristan Harris
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we focus optimistically on the things it does. Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?
“As long as social media companies profit from outrage, confusion, addiction, and depression, our well-being and democracy will continue to be at risk.”