Shared world-making requires joint attention in physical co-presence

Evidence

Attention Activism gets its jump start in experiences of joint attention (attention to the same things, attention to each other). This collective attention, which is what we study and practice at the School of Radical Attention, is, we believe, the stuff that makes a shared world. It’s something that can happen only in the presence of other people. Solo stuff? Fine. Even good. But it isn’t ever gonna get us where we need to go. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 318

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pinpoints the definitional core: joint attention as the load-bearing concept distinguishing collective from solo attention.
• XREF: connects to: Conference attendance functions as visible status display in the tech scene — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 197; A single encountered object discloses equipment, world, and shared sociality at once — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 219; Networked organizing erases the spatial and temporal boundaries consciousness-raising depended on — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 90 (+12 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Conference attendance functions as visible status display in the tech scene — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 197; A single encountered object discloses equipment, world, and shared sociality at once — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 219; Networked organizing erases the spatial and temporal boundaries consciousness-raising depended on — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 90 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Presential joint attention differs in kind from media-captured attention by its participant-limited scale. #corroborates (0.93) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 304
• Shared physical co-presence enables the cognitive harmonizations that build subjectivity #corroborates (0.92) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 72