The Political Economy of Attention
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The Political Economy of Attention. / Pedersen, Morten Axel; Albris, Kristoffer; Seaver, Nick.
I: Annual Review of Anthropology, Bind 50, 2021, s. 309-325.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Political Economy of Attention
AU - Pedersen, Morten Axel
AU - Albris, Kristoffer
AU - Seaver, Nick
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Attention has become an issue of intense political, economic, and moral concern over recent years: from the commodification of attention by digital platforms to the alleged loss of the attentional capacities of screen-addicted children (and their parents). While attention has rarely been an explicit focus of anthropological inquiry, it has still played an important if mostly tacit part in many anthropological debates and subfields. Focusing on anthropological scholarship on digital worlds and ritual forms, we review resources for colleagues interested in this burgeoning topic of research and identify potential avenues for an incipient anthropology of attention, which studies how attentional technologies and techniques mold human minds and bodies in more or less intentional ways.
AB - Attention has become an issue of intense political, economic, and moral concern over recent years: from the commodification of attention by digital platforms to the alleged loss of the attentional capacities of screen-addicted children (and their parents). While attention has rarely been an explicit focus of anthropological inquiry, it has still played an important if mostly tacit part in many anthropological debates and subfields. Focusing on anthropological scholarship on digital worlds and ritual forms, we review resources for colleagues interested in this burgeoning topic of research and identify potential avenues for an incipient anthropology of attention, which studies how attentional technologies and techniques mold human minds and bodies in more or less intentional ways.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - attention
KW - political economy
KW - digitalization
KW - media
KW - ritual
KW - religion
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110356
DO - 10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110356
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 309
EP - 325
JO - Annual Review of Anthropology
JF - Annual Review of Anthropology
SN - 0084-6570
ER -
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