Interest as an Alternative to Attention in the Digital Age
Posted in Humanistic Approaches to Science and Technology, Meaning, Technology and Culture on Dec 15th, 2009
New uses for old words–or perhaps more accurately, old words bestowed with greater significance and meaning–have accompanied the rise of the networked world. Reputation is one. Attention is another, and is one heralded by the fairly clairvoyant futurist Howard Rheingold. He even includes “attention” as one of the four essential media literacies (h/t Spotlight on [...]
