Screen culture trains us to misperceive attention as singular and task-oriented

Evidence

But we are mostly not accustomed to thinking in this more expansive way. And that’s because we’ve mostly been trained (by screen-work, by screen-school, by screen-play, and above all by the human frackers themselves) to think of attention as a singular thing. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 204

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Aesthetic experience succeeds or fails on attentional quality, not object traits — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 431; Attention and technology co-evolve through reciprocal causation — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 534; The computer screen commands even more focused attention than television — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 665 (+2 more)