Attention is a filtering mechanism that shapes decision-making
Evidence
The center of the authors’ discussion is that attention is defined as focused mental engagement that screens out some information and narrows what is left, constraining mental processing. Thus what individuals pay attention to affects the decisions they make in their lives and in organizations. — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy, 12
Categorization
- DEFINE: Precise operational definition of attention as selective screening, foundational to the whole attention-economy discourse.
- XREF: connects to: Attention is a superimposition of entangled mechanisms rather than a single faculty — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 360; Attention selects which technical developments get pursued, forming a recursive loop with the brain — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 532; Attention is fundamentally a collecting and filtering act for survival. (+7 more)
Related
- Attention is fundamentally a collecting and filtering act for survival. (similarity 0.87)
- Attention is the mind’s selective possession of one focus amid several possible ones. (similarity 0.84)
- Attention is a superimposition of entangled mechanisms rather than a single faculty (similarity 0.82)
- Digital technologies replace human attentional energy with electrical energy. (similarity 0.82)
- Attention-maximizing technologies can reduce rather than increase user control over attention (similarity 0.81)
- Attention selects which technical developments get pursued, forming a recursive loop with the brain (similarity 0.81)
- Paying attention differs from spending time or being aware. (similarity 0.81)
- Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource (similarity 0.81)
- Controlling attention is more effective than banning options (similarity 0.81)
- Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy (similarity 0.80)
- Attention is directional potential, not a static countable quantity. (similarity 0.80)
- Attention ecology is a surprisingly underinvestigated field needing new vocabulary (similarity 0.80)
- Cheaper machine attention is displacing human judgment in evaluation. (similarity 0.80)
- Attention is a scarce resource drained by information overload (similarity 0.80)
- Attention is becoming the hegemonic resource restructuring material production (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Attention-maximizing technologies can reduce rather than increase user control over attention
#expands(0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 635 - The economic paradigm distorts our understanding of how attention actually functions
#complicates(0.70) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 75 - Controlling attention is more effective than banning options
#expands(0.70) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 421