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author Bombaerts, Gunter
Hannes, Tom
Adam, Martin
Aloisi, Alessandra
Anderson, Joel
Berger, Lawrence
Bettera, Stefano Davide
Campo, Enrico
Candiotto, Laura
Panizza, Silvia Caprioglio
Citton, Yves
D’Angelo, Diego
Dennis, Matthew
Depraz, Nathalie
Doran, Peter
Drechsler, Wolfgang
Duane, Bill
Edelglass, William
Eisenberger, Iris
McGuire, Beverley Foulks
Fredriksson, Antony
Gill, Karamjit S.
Hershock, Peter D.
Hongladarom, Soraj
Jacobs, Beth
Karsai, Gábor
Lennerfors, Thomas
Lim, Jeanne
Lin, Chien-Te
Losoncz, Mark
Loy, David
Marin, Lavinia
Marosán, Bence Péter
Mascarello, Chiara
McMahan, David
Park, Jin Y.
Petek, Nina
Puzio, Anna
Schaubroek, Katrien
Schlieter, Jens
Schroeder, Brian
Shakya, Shobhit
Shi, Juewei
Solomonova, Elizaveta
Tormen, Francesco
Uttam, Jitendra
Van Vugt, Marieke
Vörös, Sebastjan
Wehrle, Maren
Wellner, Galit
Wirth, Jason M.
Witkowski, Olaf
Wongkitrungrueng, Apiradee
Wright, Dale S.
Zheng, Yutong
author_facet Bombaerts, Gunter
Hannes, Tom
Adam, Martin
Aloisi, Alessandra
Anderson, Joel
Berger, Lawrence
Bettera, Stefano Davide
Campo, Enrico
Candiotto, Laura
Panizza, Silvia Caprioglio
Citton, Yves
D’Angelo, Diego
Dennis, Matthew
Depraz, Nathalie
Doran, Peter
Drechsler, Wolfgang
Duane, Bill
Edelglass, William
Eisenberger, Iris
McGuire, Beverley Foulks
Fredriksson, Antony
Gill, Karamjit S.
Hershock, Peter D.
Hongladarom, Soraj
Jacobs, Beth
Karsai, Gábor
Lennerfors, Thomas
Lim, Jeanne
Lin, Chien-Te
Losoncz, Mark
Loy, David
Marin, Lavinia
Marosán, Bence Péter
Mascarello, Chiara
McMahan, David
Park, Jin Y.
Petek, Nina
Puzio, Anna
Schaubroek, Katrien
Schlieter, Jens
Schroeder, Brian
Shakya, Shobhit
Shi, Juewei
Solomonova, Elizaveta
Tormen, Francesco
Uttam, Jitendra
Van Vugt, Marieke
Vörös, Sebastjan
Wehrle, Maren
Wellner, Galit
Wirth, Jason M.
Witkowski, Olaf
Wongkitrungrueng, Apiradee
Wright, Dale S.
Zheng, Yutong
contents As the signatories of this manifesto, we denounce the attention economy as inhumane and a threat to our sociopolitical and ecological well-being. We endorse policymakers' efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy's technology, but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ecology of attending, that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. With 'embedded' we mean that attention is not a neutral, isolated mechanism but a meaning-engendering part of an 'ecology' of bodily, sociotechnical and moral frameworks. With 'focused on the alleviation of suffering' we explicitly move away from the (often implicit) conception of attention as a tool for gratifying desires.
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spellingShingle From an attention economy to an ecology of attending. A manifesto
Bombaerts, Gunter
Hannes, Tom
Adam, Martin
Aloisi, Alessandra
Anderson, Joel
Berger, Lawrence
Bettera, Stefano Davide
Campo, Enrico
Candiotto, Laura
Panizza, Silvia Caprioglio
Citton, Yves
D’Angelo, Diego
Dennis, Matthew
Depraz, Nathalie
Doran, Peter
Drechsler, Wolfgang
Duane, Bill
Edelglass, William
Eisenberger, Iris
McGuire, Beverley Foulks
Fredriksson, Antony
Gill, Karamjit S.
Hershock, Peter D.
Hongladarom, Soraj
Jacobs, Beth
Karsai, Gábor
Lennerfors, Thomas
Lim, Jeanne
Lin, Chien-Te
Losoncz, Mark
Loy, David
Marin, Lavinia
Marosán, Bence Péter
Mascarello, Chiara
McMahan, David
Park, Jin Y.
Petek, Nina
Puzio, Anna
Schaubroek, Katrien
Schlieter, Jens
Schroeder, Brian
Shakya, Shobhit
Shi, Juewei
Solomonova, Elizaveta
Tormen, Francesco
Uttam, Jitendra
Van Vugt, Marieke
Vörös, Sebastjan
Wehrle, Maren
Wellner, Galit
Wirth, Jason M.
Witkowski, Olaf
Wongkitrungrueng, Apiradee
Wright, Dale S.
Zheng, Yutong
Computers and Society
As the signatories of this manifesto, we denounce the attention economy as inhumane and a threat to our sociopolitical and ecological well-being. We endorse policymakers' efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy's technology, but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ecology of attending, that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. With 'embedded' we mean that attention is not a neutral, isolated mechanism but a meaning-engendering part of an 'ecology' of bodily, sociotechnical and moral frameworks. With 'focused on the alleviation of suffering' we explicitly move away from the (often implicit) conception of attention as a tool for gratifying desires.
title From an attention economy to an ecology of attending. A manifesto
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17421