Overview
- Contextualizes the issues of strategic and interpersonal communication in an attention scarce environment
- Analyses socio-ethical aspects of current information gathering and distribution models
- Provides analytical tools for understanding the evolution of power relations in our society
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines a series of phenomena that have accompanied the development of digital technology and focuses on the attentional processes that these phenomena have in common. Across the social order, complaints are growing about a lack of attention as well as an overriding push by corporations and institutions to capture and mobilize attention. With a particular focus on social attention, the book highlights the need for an increased awareness about the agents that shape attention in our society, the effects that these agents (attempt to) produce, and the means by which individuals and groups may increase their control over personal and social attention. With a range of academic perspectives, this book is a crucial read for understanding the changing shape of political, business and personal communication.
Reviews
“This book is a high-quality, original contribution to the field. For scholars interested in the structures that shape attention in our society, the effects that these structures produce, and the means by which individuals and groups may increase their control over both individual and social attention, this book is an absolute must.” (Athina Karatzogianni, Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK)
“An essential read to understandthe economics of attention in the social media age.” (Alessandro Gandini, Lecturer in Digital Media Management and Innovation, King’s College London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Waddick Doyle is the founder of the Global Communications department and Director of the Civic Media Lab at The American University of Paris, France.
Claudia Roda is Professor of Computer Science at the American University of Paris, France. She is the author of Human Rights and Digital Technology (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communication in the Era of Attention Scarcity
Editors: Waddick Doyle, Claudia Roda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20918-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20917-9Published: 26 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20918-6Published: 13 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 143
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Culture and Technology, Social Media, Political Communication