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Your attention isn’t just being “captured” — it’s being priced.

In this episode, I break down the Attention Economy in plain English:
What it is (and what it isn’t)
How attention turns into engagement, and engagement turns into money
The strongest case FOR it (funding “free” services, discovery, efficiency)
The strongest case AGAINST it (autonomy, well-being externalities, misinformation risk)
What research can measure vs what we infer vs what remains unknown
Practical countermeasures for viewers and creators

#AttentionEconomy #DigitalWellbeing #TechEthics #MediaLiteracy #PersuasiveDesign

Synthetic/AI note: This video uses AI-generated narration/visual elements and was produced from curated documents using NotebookLM, then reviewed/edited for clarity.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Foundations / definitions
Herbert A. Simon (classic framing): https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/p...
Goldhaber (1997) “The Attention Economy and the Net”: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/a...
Heitmayer (2025) “The Second Wave of Attention Economics”: https://academic.oup.com/iwc/article/37/1/...
Chen (2025) “A Model of the Attention Economy” (PDF): https://danieltchen.com/Aug31Revision.pdf

Pro (efficiency / funding “free” services)
Evans (2020) “The Economics of Attention Markets” (PDF): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/...
Goldfarb & Tucker (2010) “Online Advertising” (PDF): https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/~agoldfar...
Boik & Greenstein (2016) “The Empirical Economics of Online Attention” (NBER PDF): https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_...
European Commission JRC (2021) “Consumer well-being & zero-price digital services” (PDF): https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repo...

Con (persuasion / autonomy / social costs)
Fogg (2003) “Persuasive Technology” (PDF): https://memoof.me/download/922/pdf/922.pdf
Zuboff (2019) “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” (HBS page): https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.asp...
Critical review (2022) of Zuboff (PDF): https://budrich-journals.de/index.php/ijar...
Schwartz (2025) “A Critique of the Attention Economy…” (dissertation): https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertati...

Mixed / nuanced evidence
Allcott et al. (2020) “The Welfare Effects of Social Media” (PDF): https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/researc...
Orben & Przybylski (2019) adolescent well-being (PDF): https://zenodo.org/records/2648689/files/2...
Brynjolfsson, Collis et al. (2019) valuing digital goods (PNAS): https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815...
Corrigan et al. (2018) value of social media (PLOS ONE): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?...

Question for you:
What’s the single biggest thing stealing your attention — the app, the algorithm, or your own defaults?

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