Online Social Optimization
January 31st, 2010

TL;DR: The Future of Attention for #AOIR11

# Has mediated culture changed to fit new regimes of attention?

# With an infinite number of channels, is it still possible to get citizens to talk about the same topic?

# How do marketers get attention when technologies, from TiVo to pop-up blockers, allow for filtering?

# Does the ability to work anywhere, thanks to mobile devices, break down the idea of attending to home or family within particular temporal and spatial blocks?

# How does a new disciplining of attention (or a lack of such disciplining?) affect learning inside and outside of schools and universities?

# Are “Lifehacker” and “Four Hour Work Week” just continuations of a long interest in efficiency, or do they mark a move beyond the workplace for such efforts?

# Is there a consensus regarding “multi-tasking” and “continuous partial attention” vs. task focus in terms of effectiveness?

# How do individuals create their own “situational awareness”? To what degree is our attention locationally based?

# How have technologies of social networking affected who we attend to and how we attend to them?

via TL;DR: The Future of Attention – a thaumaturgical compendium.

by unruh | Posted in Group Mind Dynamics, Recognition Economy | Comments Off | Tags: ,
January 16th, 2010

Digital Narrative in Attention Ecology

It is the act of assembling the footage prior to the movie-going experience which seems to reveal a specific sequence of events, and only by attending the film would the entire narration reveal the other underlying pattern.

via Digital Narrative in Attention Ecology .;. Trans-Media Narration via Modular Exposure.

The idea behind this sentence is to construct hooks which unravel in the mind to an intuitive apprehension of a specific enthymeme prior to the actual reading of the narrative flow – be that in whatever medium – to set the staging and cauterize catharsis – engendering a desiring loop.

Of course, this is obviously weaponizable – inserting desiring machines into docile bodies by way of memetic triggers seems a bit like Dollhouse without wires.

-Wes














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