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A Critique of the Attention Economy: Flourishing, Autonomy, and Corruption
A Critique of the Attention Economy: Flourishing, Autonomy, and Corruption
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103124
- ISBN
- 9798315705130
- DDC
- 170
- 서명/저자
- A Critique of the Attention Economy: Flourishing, Autonomy, and Corruption
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 138 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Bovens, Luc.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The attention economy is a widespread market characterized by two types of transactions: people exchange their attention for access to new media services; these companies then sell our attention, and the information they have gathered by means of it, to advertisers. My dissertation argues that the attention economy is an impediment to human flourishing-that it is deeply at odds with intimate relationships, attentional virtues, autonomy, and valuing attention properly. First, I argue that dating apps, an attention economy service, undermine ways of thinking central to forming and maintaining committed romantic relationships. Their choice structure fosters a people-shopping mindset of exit and optimization. This economic way of thinking is morally degrading in the context of intimate relationships. Moreover, dating apps have diminished the availability of other modalities of dating and have created a collective action problem.Second, I explicate how sustained attention is inhibited by the attention economy and I argue that this capacity is essential to virtue and human flourishing. In particular, the attention economy inhibits the cultivation of the specific virtues of aloneness and stillness. These virtues have inherent value and are essential for achieving other valuable goods, such as self-knowledge and social commitments. Social media also engenders positional competition for inherently scarce, attention-based goods like popularity. Third, I argue that the attention economy infringes upon one's autonomy by significantly interfering with control over sustaining and directing one's attention. The attention economy is pervasive, practically necessary, and hidden. It objectionably interferes with people's second-order preference satisfaction and their internal preference formation. And, one's attention-based social obligations are at odds with the obligation to protect one's autonomy from the attention economy.Fourth, I argue that the attention economy expresses and promotes corrupted attitudes about attention, namely, that attention is instrumentally valuable, commensurable with market goods, and valuable solely for its quantity. I develop a threshold view of when this corruption occurs for attention and defend my view from Brennan & Jaworski's critique of the argument that markets express corrupted attitudes.
- 일반주제명
- Ethics
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy
- 키워드
- Virtue ethics
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Philosophy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThe attention economy is a widespread market characterized by two types of transactions: people exchange their attention for access to new media services; these companies then sell our attention, and the information they have gathered by means of it, to advertisers. My dissertation argues that the attention economy is an impediment to human flourishing-that it is deeply at odds with intimate relationships, attentional virtues, autonomy, and valuing attention properly. First, I argue that dating apps, an attention economy service, undermine ways of thinking central to forming and maintaining committed romantic relationships. Their choice structure fosters a people-shopping mindset of exit and optimization. This economic way of thinking is morally degrading in the context of intimate relationships. Moreover, dating apps have diminished the availability of other modalities of dating and have created a collective action problem.Second, I explicate how sustained attention is inhibited by the attention economy and I argue that this capacity is essential to virtue and human flourishing. In particular, the attention economy inhibits the cultivation of the specific virtues of aloneness and stillness. These virtues have inherent value and are essential for achieving other valuable goods, such as self-knowledge and social commitments. Social media also engenders positional competition for inherently scarce, attention-based goods like popularity. Third, I argue that the attention economy infringes upon one's autonomy by significantly interfering with control over sustaining and directing one's attention. The attention economy is pervasive, practically necessary, and hidden. It objectionably interferes with people's second-order preference satisfaction and their internal preference formation. And, one's attention-based social obligations are at odds with the obligation to protect one's autonomy from the attention economy.Fourth, I argue that the attention economy expresses and promotes corrupted attitudes about attention, namely, that attention is instrumentally valuable, commensurable with market goods, and valuable solely for its quantity. I develop a threshold view of when this corruption occurs for attention and defend my view from Brennan & Jaworski's critique of the argument that markets express corrupted attitudes.
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■653 ▼aEthics of technology
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■653 ▼aVirtue ethics
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