Measuring attention as data enables treating it as a monetizable resource

Evidence

Quantification is the first step toward monetization. And so we refuse the datafication of attention, in order to insist on a fuller vision of human existence. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 244

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Attention can be quantitatively measured and thereby bought and sold. (similarity 0.86)
• Attention now functions like money as a common metric for cultural value. (similarity 0.85)
• Attention exceeds any measurable property, so exchanging it for money always entails loss. (similarity 0.85)
• Attention cannot function as currency without homogenizing measurement (similarity 0.85)
• The attention economy captures pre-existing human communities onto platforms to monetize them (similarity 0.84)
• Attention only becomes convertible capital through homogenizing measurement devices (similarity 0.84)
• Attention is the fundamental medium of all human connection (similarity 0.83)
• Attention functions as convertible capital that individuals and institutions can bank and trade (similarity 0.83)
• Attention is a currency that is always being spent and cannot be saved (similarity 0.82)
• The attention economy rests on a hidden false premise about attention. (similarity 0.82)
• An attention economy requires reducing diverse attention to one quantifiable substance. (similarity 0.82)
• Quantifiability is the necessary precondition for turning anything into money. (similarity 0.82)
• Attention extraction reaches people before they can reach their communities (similarity 0.82)
• Attention can be deliberately wielded, not just reclaimed (similarity 0.82)
• Attention operates as a form of capital that accrues interest and concentrates inequality. (similarity 0.82)