Attention also varies in quality and mode, not just quantity

Evidence

Envisaging our various milieux as belonging to different attentional regimes implies adding a modal (and affective) dimension to what we have until now been considering only in a factual (and cognitive) framework. Attention is not only a matter of objects that have been perceived or identified more or less correctly, of a limited resource whose distribution puts objects in competition with each other. It is also characterized by a whole range of very different qualities and ways of being attentive to what is around us. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 123

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the modal/affective dimension that turns attention into a matter of regimes rather than a single scarce resource.
• XREF: connects to: The attention economy treats attention as uniform when its quality is secretly variable — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 345; Paying attention differs from spending time or being aware. — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy: Understanding…, 22; Attention is judged by its blooms, not its duration — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 385 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The attention economy treats attention as uniform when its quality is secretly variable #corroborates (0.95) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 345
• Paying attention differs from spending time or being aware. #expands (0.80) — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy, 22
• Attention is judged by its blooms, not its duration #expands (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 385
• Attention can be quantitatively measured and thereby bought and sold. #contradicts (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 121
• Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource #expands (0.80) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 26
• Presential joint attention differs in kind from media-captured attention by its participant-limited scale. #qualifies (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 304
• Attention systems divide between subjective rating and algorithmic ranking. #exemplifies (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 230