Attention ecology is a surprisingly underinvestigated field needing new vocabulary

Evidence

In order to suggest different reading rhythms, the route will be punctuated by a hundred or so KEY-EXPRESSIONS, written in capitals, and accompanied on each occasion by a concise definition in italics. Readers in a hurry can gain an initial idea of the concepts discussed in the chapter, and only linger over those which are of direct interest. Through this system, the book will put forward a battery of concepts, principles, maxims and hypotheses, for which it will seek to provide rigorous initial definitions – hoping in this way to furnish a more precise vocabulary with which to explore, decipher and cultivate the surprisingly underinvestigated field of what may become an ‘attention ecology’. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 19

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names and frames the book’s core project: building a precise vocabulary for an ‘attention ecology’ as a new analytical field.
• SEED: An angle: comparing how the book’s KEY-EXPRESSIONS device conditions reader attention with how algorithmic feeds condition platform attention.
• XREF: connects to: Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 87; The attention economy functions as an industrial farm of vegetative users — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 83; Attention science defined attention as visual, durational, and cybernetic to fit its funders’ tools (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy #expands (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 87
• Attention science defined attention as visual, durational, and cybernetic to fit its funders’ tools #corroborates (0.80)
• The attention economy functions as an industrial farm of vegetative users #exemplifies (0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 83