Synchronized collective watching sustains the production system

Evidence

And so the general function of this entire mediasphere, of which we had difficulty deciding whether it related to the necessities of production or to the puzzling pleasures of entertainment, comes into view. The very fact of watching the same things together at the same time, even if in apparent isolation from each other, produces effects of communal valorization which are indispensable to the constant renewal of the system of production. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 93

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Durkheim’s collective effervescence and the Frankfurt School thesis that culture industry reproduces capitalist subjects. — connects to: Ongoing markets sustain continual synchronous interaction unlike typical electronic groups — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 142; Sustained collective looking restabilizes meaning amid endless digital reframing — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 447; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (+2 more)
• SEED: Commonsense-busting angle: shared TV/streaming viewing as the load-bearing ritual of industrial production renewal.

Broader Connections

• Sustained collective looking restabilizes meaning amid endless digital reframing #corroborates (0.88) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 447
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #corroborates (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121
• Ongoing markets sustain continual synchronous interaction unlike typical electronic groups #exemplifies (0.82) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 142
• Collective practice anchors and sustains attention activism #corroborates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 327
• Panoptic power rests on central inspection plus unseen watching #expands (0.78) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 152