Information abundance paradoxically makes signal transmission more expensive

Evidence

It may also relate to access restrictions imposed by media intermediation (media gates): a notice published in a local fanzine constitutes a weaker signal than an advertisement showing on TF1 at primetime. The richer the economy is in information, the higher the thresholds relating to perceptibility rise, the more information is supressed by the filters, the bigger the determining role played by media portals and the more relatively expensive it is to send signals. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the attention economy’s core paradox as theorized by Wu and Davenport — scarce attention in an age of excess information. — connects to: Information abundance creates a scarcity of attention — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 7

Broader Connections

• Information abundance creates a scarcity of attention #expands (0.85) — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 7