Members of this list may be interested in the latest issue of the (open
access) journal Culture Machine. My colleague Patrick Crogan and I
co-edited a special issue offering critical reflections on what has been
termed the 'attention economy':
http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/current
The issue was developed from a 2010 conference, 'Paying Attention',
convened by the Digital Cultures Research Centre (UWE) with funds from
the European Science Foundation (see the conference website:
http://www.payingattention.org ).
Beginning with a substantial editorial, the issue aims to revitalise and
update the critical examination of the workings of the ‘attention
economy’ in the context of today's rapidly emerging realtime,
ubiquitous, online digital technoculture. It re-focusses work on this
theme of attention in light of the current and emerging technocultural
environment of smart devices, the increasing mediation of experience,
and the significant financial speculation in the attention capturing
potential of social networking media.
The special issue includes an interview with Peer-2-peer Foundation
co-founder, Michel Bauwens; essays by key theorists of attention
Jonathan Beller, Bernard Stiegler & Tiziana Terranova; and several
papers on topics from Facebook, Free and Open Software, the ecological
costs of our attentional technologies, to the problematic role of
digital social networking in Istanbul's 2010 term as European Capital of
Culture.
I hope this may be of interest. Please do contact me with any related
queries.
With good wishes,
Sam
--
Dr Sam Kinsley
Digital Cultures Research Centre
University of the West of England, Bristol
@DCRCUK
http://www.dcrc.org.uk/
@samkinsley
http://www.samkinsley.com/
|