Category Archives: attention economy
Made You Look! Advertising and the New Attention Economy
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/hey-you-look-over-here-advertising-and-the-dawn-of-the-attention-economy/ Figure #1 – Taste the difference? (Bond, 2020) Why do we have advertising? Paying for content via advertisements is a relatively recent phenomenon. In his important and timely book The Attention Merchants (20106), author Tim Wu … Continue reading
Digital Guinea Pigs: Downplaying Online Experimentation
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/hooked-downplaying-online-experimentation/ Figure #1. Wire me in! (Graphis Competitions, 2011) Many people are surprised, even shocked, at the amount of experimentation happening in online spaces. This includes social media platforms as detailed in the video What Makes You … Continue reading
How We Talk: The Price That Our Devices Exact (Graphic)
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/how-we-talk-infographic/ Teens texted around 60 times a day in 2012, an increase from around 50 in 2009 (Pew Research Center, 2012). Given our seemingly perpetual engagement with digital devices, those original numbers have likely been dwarfed since … Continue reading