The Attention Economy Between Market Capturing and Commitment in the Polity

Kessous, Emmanuel

doi:10.4000/oeconomia.1123

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“…Applications with intelligent recommender systems (i.e. those that can react to environmental changes and/or actively collect and process information left by users over time) are also designed to intervene at the right time and in the right place in order to best capture their users’ attention (Cochoy, 2011; Kessous, 2015).…”

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How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing

Calvignac

Smolinski

2019

Tourist Studies

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When we use a smartphone as we move about, we see our surroundings in a different way, adopting new practices to combine physical exploration of place with digital navigation on the Web. This article seeks to identify how consulting digital information as we go along modifies our behaviour. Specifically, we will focus on the use of a mobile application dedicated to the presentation of a tourist site. Our exploratory study is based on a comparison of two groups of visitors: the first group was provided with a printed tourist guide, and the second had the same guide plus a smartphone with a tourist guide application. For the purposes of comparison, the visitors were followed step by step (their movements were tracked by GPS) and click by click (the application recorded the user’s browsing history). At the end of the tour, participants were also invited to comment on their experience, in semi-structured interviews. The results of the study suggest that the use of a smartphone while sightseeing modifies significantly our walking pace, the number of halts and slowdowns we make, and also the type of circuit we follow. Using the smartphone leads visitors to follow more carefully the itinerary proposed and, as a result, to explore the world with greater application

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How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing

Calvignac

Smolinski

2019

Tourist Studies

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“…Establishing a difference between individual and impersonal subjectivation helps clarifies well-known concepts in the analysis of social media, chief among them is 'the economy of attention' (Goldhaber, 1997;Kessous, 2015;Simon, 1971). As Citton (2017) recalls, the proliferation of material goods and services advertised for consumption has led to a paucity of available attention: competition among goods and services is now so intense that capturing, directing, and redirecting consumer attention has emerged as one of the most -if not the most -powerful and valuable business sectors in the world (think Google's search functions, Facebook's newsfeed advertising, and Apple's app ecology).…”

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Impersonal subjectivation from platforms to infrastructures

Langlois

Elmer

2018

Media, Culture & Society

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The rapid expansion of social media has led to the concentration of digitized, networked, and mediated processes into the hands of a few giant corporations (e.g. Google, Facebook, and Amazon), their partners and affiliates. From smart watches to targeted advertising and reputation scores, this new political economy of subjectivation – or subject making – sees an intensification of datafication to sell commodities, manipulate moods, inject ideologies, and influence behaviors. This article argues that in order to understand this new political economy of subjectivation, we need to complicate and build upon framework that focus on the collection of personal data and its risks on individual users. We argue that as social media and digital media giant corporations move away from an enclosed platform model toward a distributed, impersonal infrastructure, the mining of individual data and the shaping of individual attitudes is increasingly geared toward establishing relationships between user data and a plethora of non-human, environmental data. Such an infrastructure invokes impersonal subjects, and thus requires a new politics of relationality.

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Corporate ownership of automated vehicles: discussing potential negative externalities

Ferdman

2019

Transport Reviews

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The Attention Economy Between Market Capturing and Commitment in the Polity

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing

How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing

Impersonal subjectivation from platforms to infrastructures

Corporate ownership of automated vehicles: discussing potential negative externalities

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