Restructuring the attention economy

Citton, Yves

doi:10.4324/9781315231617-15

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“…The expansion and use of social media platforms are often cited as reasons for the rise in online forms of abuse and harassment, including widespread misogynist, racist, and homophobic attacks that occur online and extend to the gaming space (Banet-Weiser & Miltner, 2016; Marwick & Caplan, 2018; Massanari, 2017; Powell & Henry, 2017). This literature is partly grounded in theories of media affordances, which recognizes that social media interfaces (especially vertical threads, tickers, and feeds) create a short attention span and, in turn, consequently abrasive “hot takes,” trolling and flame wars that receive the attention and reposts of users (Bucher & Helmond, 2018; Citton, 2017). Research on the far right or alt-right has also focused on social, political, and economic explanations for online hate speech, cyber abuse, and harassment (Hawley, 2017; Munn, 2019; Nagle, 2017).…”

Section: Cyber-abuse Anonymity Trolling and Pranksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

Elmer

Neville

Burton

et al. 2021

Social Media + Society

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Using a digital methods analysis, the following article conducts a cross-platform study of the emergent “Zoombombing” phenomenon alongside COVID-19 and the concomitant on-lining of professional and public life. This empirical study seeks to provide further insight to media frames characterizing Zoombombing at the outbreak of the pandemic, providing further insight into Zoombombing as a practice, how related actions act as an extension of longer histories and practices of online harassment, and the role that various platforms play in the phenomenon’s unfolding. By interrogating these points of departure, our study sheds light not only on Zoombombing as a cultural practice, but also how these acts manifest within and across a range of Internet platforms.

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Section: Cyber-abuse Anonymity Trolling and Pranksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

Elmer

Neville

Burton

et al. 2021

Social Media + Society

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“…The I who attends is an I already shaped by attending. Yves Citton (2017) argues that attention is not simply something individuals deploy, but is rather a collective and joint activity that individuates. What reaches us and reaches into us shape how we attend, and this attending composes us as individuals : there is an irreducible complexity to the argument that we are what we attend to.…”

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“…That is, we can think of care through attending . “The essence of care ,” Citton (2017) writes, “is fundamentally rooted in joint attention: be attentive to what preoccupies others” (p. 113). The root word of attention is tendere : to be precise, the present active infinitive of tendō : “I stretch, distend, extend” (Attention, n.d.).…”

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Consensual attending

Rivers

2020

Communication and the Public

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Consensual attending addresses the ecological and relational conditions in which any act of assent or dissent materializes. I argue that consent is not an act undertaken by individuals, but is a relational endeavor that individuates. Any solitary act of assent—of thinking, perceiving, feeling—is predicated upon prior and ongoing consensual acts. The terms of consensual attending modulate one another: consensual distributes attention beyond the individual and attending intensifies the consensual in marking how our joint and collective attention individuates us as sensing beings. Consensual attending is predicated not upon individual rhetorical acts of assent but ambient formations in which rhetorical capacities emerge. To arrive at such a consent, I retune William James’ articulation of attention as a function of agreement by looking toward ecologies of attention. This retuning necessarily entails thinking through the ethical and political implications of consensual attending in our present political moment, wherein the virality of #resist and #metoo registers anxiety about our individual and collective (in)capacities to dis/agree. I engage feminist scholarship on consent in the context of sexual relations in thinking through the contextual composition of consent. Thinking through scholarship on sexual consent complicates consensual attending, and addressing sexual consent itself serves as an example of the trouble lurking in the reduction of consent to assent. Such a reduction leaves unaddressed the ecologies in which such collective capacities are composed. I conclude by returning to attention in order to speculate how such consensual capacities might be composed.

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“…For our purposes here however, Yves Citton’s (2017) recently translated book The Ecology of Attention , also reminds us that attention is not only paid, owned, commercialized, or traded, it also constructs and binds together various social and individual practices, including social forms of reputation and political recognition. As a consequence, Citton suggests that an ecology of attention recognizes various practices that are so routinized or ‘internalized’ as to become ‘semi-attentive’.…”

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Media scarcity in an age of information abundance: the case of MK veterans

Elmer

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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This paper questions the dominant attention economy and media abundance framework in media studies by questioning the mediated politics of ‘media scarce’ communities and individuals. Focusing on the armed wing of the African National Congress (MK), the paper questions how media scarcity affects a group’s ability to engage in public campaigns, given their lack of historical media documentation. The paper analyzes how the MK developed various media tactics to overcome their lack of media documentation, both during the fight against the Apartheid state and in present day campaigns for military veterans’ rights.

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Restructuring the attention economy

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Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

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Media scarcity in an age of information abundance: the case of MK veterans

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