The Ecology Of Attention

Author : Yves Citton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509503766

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The Ecology of Attention by Yves Citton Pdf

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like paying attention and investing ones attention attest to our mistaken belief that attention can be conceptualized in narrow economic terms. We are constantly drawn towards attempts to quantify and commodify attention, even down to counting the number of 'likes' a picture receives on Facebook or a video on YouTube. By contrast, Citton argues that we should conceptualize attention as a kind of ecology and examine how the many different environments to which we are exposed – from advertising to literature, search engines to performance art – condition our attention in different ways. In a world where the demands on our attention are ever-increasing, this timely and original book will be of great interest to students and scholars in media and communications and in literary and cultural studies, and to anyone concerned about the long-term consequences of the profusion of images as well as digital content in the age of the internet.

Author : Cas Mudde
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509536856

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The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde Pdf

The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil, India, and the United States – now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.

Author : Fred Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107115378

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Ecology in Action by Fred Singer Pdf

Integrates process and content of core areas of ecology using an engaging narrative, fascinating case studies, and stunning images throughout.

Author : Claudia Aradau,Tobias Blanke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192675781

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Algorithmic Reason by Claudia Aradau,Tobias Blanke Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Are algorithms ruling the world today? Is artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions? Are social media companies able to manipulate elections? As we are confronted with public and academic anxieties about unprecedented changes, this book offers a different analytical prism through which these transformations can be explored. Claudia Aradau and Tobias Blanke develop conceptual and methodological tools to understand how algorithmic operations shape the government of self and other. They explore the emergence of algorithmic reason through rationalities, materializations, and interventions, and trace how algorithmic rationalities of decomposition, recomposition, and partitioning are materialized in the construction of dangerous others, the power of platforms, and the production of economic value. The book provides a global trandisciplinary perspective on algorithmic operations, drawing on qualitative and digital methods to investigate controversies ranging from mass surveillance and the Cambridge Analytica scandal in the UK to predictive policing in the US, and from the use of facial recognition in China and drone targeting in Pakistan to the regulation of hate speech in Germany.

Author : Jean Lightner,Tom Hennigan
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781614583172

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The Ecology Book by Jean Lightner,Tom Hennigan Pdf

Study the relationship between living organisms and our place in God's wondrous creation! Learn important words and concepts from different habitats around the world to mutual symbiosis as a product of the relational character of God. Designed with a multi-age level format especially for homeschool educational programs. Examine influential Scientists and their work, more fully understand practical aspects of stewardship, and investigate ecological connections in creation! The best-selling Wonders of Creation series adds a new biology-focused title that unveils the intricate nature of God's world and the harmony that was broken by sin. This educational resource is color-coded with three educational levels in mind: 5th to 6th grades, 7th to 8th grades, and 9th through 11th grades, which can be utilized for the classroom, independent study, or homeschool setting. Whether used as part of our newly developed science curriculum or simply as a unique unit study, the book includes full-color photos, informative illustrations, and meaningful descriptions. The text encourages an understanding of a world designed, not as a series of random evolutionary accidents, but instead as a wondrous, well-designed system of life around the globe created to enrich and support one another.

Author : Enrico Campo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000587548

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Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society by Enrico Campo Pdf

In the context of debates surrounding the effects of new technologies on our mental faculties, particularly the attention span, this volume addresses the notion of a deterioration of attention, and the related ideas of cognitive overload, an inability to concentrate, and attention deficit disorder. Through a new conceptualization of attention based not on individualistic or universalistic approaches, but centered instead on the cultural and social variability of cognitive processes and the multiplicity of forces and environments that encourage, stimulate, and inhibit certain cognitive mechanisms, the author rejects the idea of a degradation or crisis of attention and proposes an alternative vision of the problem of attention in contemporary societies. Placing cultural conventions, social norms, and ecological environments at the forefront of our understanding of individual and collective attention, Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, psychology, and philosophy with interests in social theory, cognitive processes, and the criticisms often levelled at digital society and new technologies.

Author : Richard A. Lanham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226468822

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The Economics of Attention by Richard A. Lanham Pdf

If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With all the verve and erudition that have established his earlier books as classics, Richard A. Lanham here traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to Lanham, the central commodity in our new age of information is not stuff but style, for style is what competes for our attention amidst the din and deluge of new media. In such a world, intellectual property will become more central to the economy than real property, while the arts and letters will grow to be more crucial than engineering, the physical sciences, and indeed economics as conventionally practiced. For Lanham, the arts and letters are the disciplines that study how human attention is allocated and how cultural capital is created and traded. In an economy of attention, style and substance change places. The new attention economy, therefore, will anoint a new set of moguls in the business world—not the CEOs or fund managers of yesteryear, but new masters of attention with a grounding in the humanities and liberal arts. Lanham’s The Electronic Word was one of the earliest and most influential books on new electronic culture. The Economics of Attention builds on the best insights of that seminal book to map the new frontier that information technologies have created.

Author : Leo van Lier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402079122

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The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning by Leo van Lier Pdf

In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought of before, but that the difficulty is to think of it again. The same certainly is true of the present effort. If it has any innovative ideas to offer, these lie in a novel combination of thoughts and ideas that have been around for a long, long time. The reader will encounter influences that range from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the work is intentionally broad, covering all major themes that are part of the language learning process and the language teaching profession. These themes include language, perception and action, self, learning, critical pedagogy and research. At the same time I have attempted to look at both the macro and the micro sides of the ecological coin, and address issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This, then, aims to be a book that can be read by practitioners and theoreticians alike, and the main idea is that it should be readable and challenging at the same time.

Author : Robert E Hess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317735762

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The Ecology of Prevention by Robert E Hess Pdf

This provocative volume offers an enlightening look at mental health consultation as a preventive service. To enhance the prospects of consultation being preventive, consultation is defined as an ecological enterprise. Although attention is given to outcomes, process is the key in this book. This beneficial volume presents ten valuable principles to guide the work of a consultant, plus case studies representing different topics--self-esteem of high school students in rural Oregon, child abuse prevention in a rural and urban setting in Iowa, a junior high school consolidation in Maryland, and preventive services for Lutheran congregations in Minnesota. Each of the authors of the four case examples in their actual consultation and in their descriptions of their consultation have extended and elaborated what it means to think ecologically. Following an unusual format, the comments from the recipients of the interventions described in the case studies have been included as a reminder that prevention, in its truest spirit, involves partnerships, that “subjects” or “consultees” have feelings and opinions about their participation, and that subjective data are as important as objective data.

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Relative Risk Reduction Strategies Committee. Ecology and Welfare Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : CORNELL:31924052766981

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The Report of the Ecology and Welfare Subcommittee by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Relative Risk Reduction Strategies Committee. Ecology and Welfare Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Margaret Mackey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134483389

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Literacies Across Media by Margaret Mackey Pdf

The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. Literacies Across Media explores how a group of boys and girls, aged from ten to fourteen, make sense of narratives in a variety of formats, including print, electronic book, video, DVD, computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these young people over a period of eighteen months as they read, view and play different texts, demonstrating variations and consistencies of interpretative behaviour across different media. Margaret Mackey analyses how the activities of reading, viewing and playing intertwine and affect each other's development. Her in-depth research shows young readers developing strategies for interpreting narratives through encounters with a diverse range of texts and media. The study breaks new ground in its illustration and exploration of the impact of cross-media fertilisation on how young readers come to an understanding of how to make sense of stories. Literacies Across Media offers both a vivid account of a group of young readers coming to terms with texts and a radical perspective on the growth of a generation of young readers. It is thought-provoking, fascinating and highly informative reading not only for theoreticians interested in the reading process, but also teachers, librarians, parents and anybody involved with young people and their texts.

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0226039056

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson Pdf

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.

Author : Alison Lacivita
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813072142

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The Ecology of Finnegans Wake by Alison Lacivita Pdf

In this book—one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature—Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce’s source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts. Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita’s approach reveals Joyce’s keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin’s ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce’s work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on the Ecology of Marine Organisms
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : NAP:13052

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Report of the Subcommittee on the Ecology of Marine Organisms by National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on the Ecology of Marine Organisms Pdf

Author : Eliana Cusato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108837521

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The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law by Eliana Cusato Pdf

Unpacks key assumptions about the 'environment', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.