Attention is culturally recognized yet not as an activist cause

Evidence

To be sure, attention is already very much a “thing” within contemporary culture. People worry about their “attention spans.” Schools fret that there’s something wrong with the kids, who seem unable to “pay attention.” Everyone knows, pretty much, or at least thinks they know, the extent to which social media companies and the data barons of the internet monetize our attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 237

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes attention as private worry and monetized commodity from attention as a threatened commons needing collective defense.
• XREF: connects to: Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 236
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 236