The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (review)

By Norris Pope. 2007

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Creative industries: a new direction? (2009, background): “If the value of creative goods comes from the preferences of individuals within social networks, then social network markets are simply the commercialisation of this information into commodity form, or as Lanham has it, an ‘attention’ good (Lanham 2006).”
An anatomy of a YouTube meme (2012, background): “The economy-driven logic relates to the notion that contemporary society is based on an ‘attention economy’ (Lanham, 2006).”
The Dynamics of Audience Fragmentation: Public Attention in an Age of Digital Media (2012, background): “This has led many writers to characterize the information age as an ''attention economy'' in which attracting an audience is a prerequisite for achieving economic, social, or political objectives (e.g., Davenport & Beck, 2001; Goldhaber, 1997; Lanham, 2006; Webster, 2010).”
Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: a neurobiological hypothesis. (2007, background): “…Castellanos, F.X., Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: A neurobiological hypothesis, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews (2007), doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.02.005 a key element of human productivity in post-industrial economies (Lanham, 2006).”
Competition for attention in the Information (overload) Age (2012, background): “(16)), which has a unique price solution for pθ < pθ under the assumption that proÞt is strictly quasi-concave.”
Integrated marketing communications: From media channels to digital connectivity (2009, background): “Lanham (2006) describes how the economic model for allocating scarce resources across a set of alternatives gets reversed in today’s media world because of the abundance of low cost media content.”