The commodification of attention: Revisiting the harms of the attention economy | ||
| Journal of Cyberspace Studies | ||
| دوره 10، شماره 2، مهر 2026، صفحه 685-701 اصل مقاله (262.88 K) | ||
| نوع مقاله: Original article | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22059/jcss.2025.394786.1145 | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| Douglas R Campbell* | ||
| Department of Philosophy, Alma College, Alma, Michigan, USA. Alma College, Alma, MI, USA | ||
| چکیده | ||
| Background: The economy wrongly commodifies attention. The commodification is morally objectionable because our attention is not properly subject to market forces. Aims: A crucial aim of this article is to broaden the debate about the attention economy. Methodology: Conceptual analysis of the attention economy, the right to attention, and the influence of market forces on commodities. Discussion: In the first section, I survey the conventional approach to the attention economy, which treats the ethical problems here as instances of questions about the moral limits of markets. I agree that this approach is justified, but I aim to broaden the debate by focusing on whether attention should be commodified at all. In the second section, I argue that attention is not properly subject to market forces. In the third section, I argue that subjecting attention to market forces leads, predictably, to the development and use of technology that violates the right to attention. In the fourth section, I argue that coercive paternalism offers the correct response to these problems and that two other solutions— the reliance on nudges and the reliance on social antibodies— are inferior. Conclusion: The attention economy is a rights-violating and noxious market. Its wrongful commodification of attention produces a market that does not respect the boundaries between commercialized and non-commercialized spaces. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| attention economy؛ attention merchants؛ coercive paternalism؛ commodity؛ moral limits of markets | ||
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